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MAY EDITORIAL

 

 

 

 

In May flowers bloom, days grow ever longer and there is the palpable emotional shift in response to the seasonal promise of never ending summer days and sultry nights.

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MAY FEATURE INTERVIEW: POET YAHIA LABABIDI

 

 

 

 

 

Award nominated Poet Yahia Lababidi shares his thoughts and feelings about the creative process, the role of an artist in society and his recently published collection of poems: Fever Dreams with Val B. Russell

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MAY 7 QUESTIONS INTERVIEW : PHOTOGRAPHER ACHIM KOERFER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Achim Koerfer is an artist rich in talent, a passion glowing through his own multi layered images, photography experimental in design. Interwoven are images from his latest project focusing on time and the Maya calendar, more of which can be seen via the link at the bottom of the page.

Achim has also collaborated with various charitable organisations and we are proud to highlight this important work also.

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MAY BOOK REVIEW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Selma Sergent 


Mario Canto is a Los Angeles based poet and the author of Dancing With Disillusion. He grew up in South Central L.A. His collection of poetry is ardent, potent; there is a sense of might about it, but also the kind of sensitivity that often comes from living in an environment that is bleaker, starker than it is promising. Read more »

MAY PHOTOS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maleonn’s unique art unmasks a fragile present, the failure of denial laid bare, reluctant will penetrated to believing.  Exploding images heap blood upon stage, widening dry eyes to a dream clear, missing only distortion, each question found from an answer within.

We have five mind blowing compositions from the artist’s extensive portfolio, each painted from a past lost to the future, cloudless in conception to dissect and discover.  Lose yourself in Maleonn’s world.    Read more »

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MAY POETS

 

                                                                                        Poets for May : Ian Stewart Black, Jacqui Rowe, Andrew Feindt, Yoshira, Swan Rose, Heather Grace Stewart

 

 

 

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MAY FICTION

 

                                                                                                                                                   Fiction for May : Marcus Speh, Stella Pierides, Nancy E Boyd

 

 

 

 

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MAY ART

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mirta Benavente’s dazzling art will astonish and astound, taking you to a reality new, each colourfully rich in beauty provoking that unthought but known. An expression of the soul from another world, always our own, the future looking back to past clues, sibylline in song painted to a tune calling. Read more »

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APRIL EDITORIAL

 

 

 

We are well into spring and in keeping with the spirit of this season of rebirth we have once again evolved to incorporate other more socially conscious aspects of the arts.  Read more »

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APRIL FEATURE INTERVIEW: WORLD VISION

 

 

 

 

 

Jean Jacques Rousseau said “Childhood is the sleep of reason.” There can be no doubt as to the veracity of his statement. Indeed, children are immediate and live within the moment. They see with a clarity that startles, a clarity we shed along with our innocence when we cross the threshold into adulthood. Read more »