Read our new issue, featuring pieces by:
George Stein, Nicholas Roberts, Grove Koger, Eugene Platt, Vasiliki Poula, Konstantis Alexopoulos, Patrick Reardon, Ron Starbuck, Brady Harrison, Cheryl Chaffin, Gina Williams, Mackenzie Schubert, Jonah Howell, Konstantinos Doxiadis, Lake Angela, Jacob Klein and Kimon & Myrtias.
On the weekly: Success in Circuit Lies – by Myko Philip
‘In Hill’s later poetry, one is consistently caught unawares by some slantwise piercing glance. Amidst the rumbling ground bass of gnarled density and difficulty, a keen pure tone sometimes shines through.’
Past Issues:
from our archive: Prose & Verse
Translating Yannis Ritsos
Translations of three poems in Greek by Yannis Ritsos
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Words doing justice – A memoir from Palestine
There are things they do not tell you about occupied Palestine. You see, there...
The Salvage
Oh, to be back in the fine days of my youth, there were beautiful ships – cl...
Misfits
A translation of the poem ‘Misfits’, by Yannis Ritsos
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Seconds in China
Dust has settled in the empty room
where mice have found habitation
amon...
The Weather Says Hello
How strange that a weatherman should stop at their door! An odd figure! Should...
About the journal
from our archive: Visual Arts
The Look
Lady Samurai: Tale of the Heike
"Lady Samurai" is a hybrid, epic haiku. Taken from the Tale of Heike, "Lady Sa...
Breaking the fourth wall
Five panels (and white gutter) with a rollerball black pen on A4 printer paper...
The Umbrella Summer
Four photographs and the stories behind them
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Hidden in the thread
Thread on fabric [200 x 200cm]
& A conversation on the piece with Vasil...
A Craftsman Weaves History
A small comic strip satirising the 17th century Franco-Dutch war.
...Meet the team
From poets to painters, musicians to interviewers, and philosophers to historians, the contributors of La Piccioletta Barca are what give our journal its identity.
from our archive: Non-fiction
Five Travel Haikus and a Digression on Unfamiliarity
To pick up a book from a tradition I am not familiar with, which I have arrive...
Palintonos Harmonia
Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories ...
Words doing justice – A memoir from Palestine
There are things they do not tell you about occupied Palestine. You see, there...
Long-braided maidens gazing from the Acropolis to Russell Square
Starting from the premise that the concepts of legality and morality might oft...
Noh – between Nothing and Being
An essay and video demonstration on the art of Noh theatre.
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Wager
Those who have talked to me within the past few weeks will know that a sudden ...
from our archive: Interviews
The Spirit of the Words – In Discussion with Polly Barton
A discussion on the nature of translation, language and meaning with the accla...
Hidden in the thread
Thread on fabric [200 x 200cm]
& A conversation on the piece with Vasil...
The Entomology of Portraits – An Interview with Hernán Cortés Moreno
“I need to be constantly surrounded by people who look at me.” Hernán exp...
Refreezing the Arctic – In discussion with Hugh Hunt
In this interview, I speak with Dr Hugh Hunt (Reader in Engineering Dynami...