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      • Sylvia Plath by Dr. Nidhi Mehta >
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      • Kazi Nazrul Islam by Dr. Shamenaz Shaikh >
        • Chapter 1(Nazrul Islam)
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      • Kabir's Poetry by Dr. Anshu Pandey >
        • Chapter 1(Kabir's Poetry)
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      • My mind's not right by Dr. Vicky Gilpin >
        • Chapter- 1 Dr. Vicky Gilpin
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      • On Poetry & Poets by Abhay K.
      • Poetry of Kamla Das –A True Voice Of Bourgeoisie Women In India by Dr.Shikha Saxena
      • Identity Issues in the Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel by Dr.Arvind Nawale & Prashant Mothe*
      • Nissim Ezekiel’s Latter-Day Psalms: His Religious and Philosophical Speculations By Dr. Pallavi Srivastava
      • The Moping Owl : the Epitome of Melancholy by Zinia Mitra
      • Gary Soto’s Vision of Chicano Experiences: The Elements of San Joaquin and Human Nature by Paula Hayes
      • Sri Aurobindo: A Poet By Aju Mukhopadhyay
      • Wordsworthian Romanticism in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra: Nature and the Reflective Capabilities of a Poetic Self by Paula Hayes
      • Reflective Journey of T.S. Eliot: From Philosophy to Poetry by Syed Ahmad Raza Abidi
      • North East Indian Poetry: ‘Peace’ in Violence by Ananya .S. Guha
    • 2014-2015 >
      • From The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry Adam Wyeth
      • Alchemy’s Drama: Conflict, Resolution and Poiesis in the Poetic Work of Art by Michelle Bitting
      • Amir Khushrau: The Musical Soul of India by Dr. Shamenaz
      • PUT YOUR HANDS ON ME: POETRY'S EROTIC ART by Elena Karina Byrne
      • Celtic and Urban Landscapes in Irish Poetry by Linda Ibbotson
      • Trickster at the African Crossroads and the Bridge to the Blues in America by Michelle Bitting
    • 2015-2016 >
      • Orogeny/Erogeny: The “nonsense” of language and the poetics of Ed Dorn T Thilleman
      • Erika Burkart: Fragments, Shards, and Visions by Marc Vincenz
      • English Women Poets and Indian politics
    • 2016-2017 >
      • Children’s Poetry in India- A Case Study of Adil Jussawalla and Ananya Guha by Shruti Sareen
      • Thirteen Thoughts on Poetry in the Digital Age by Mandy kAHN
    • 2017-2018 >
      • From Self-Portrait with Dogwood: A Route of Evanescence by Christopher Merrill
      • Impure Poetry by Tony Barnstone
      • On the Poets: Contributors in Context by Donald Gardner
      • Punching above its Weight: Dutch Poetry in English, a Selection, 2013-2017 by Jane Draycott
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Issue XXI February 2015
“I would advise you not to swashbuckle with a poet,” said the poet as we both stood there facing her armory of words. She was armed to the teeth—at least, that was her wild implication as she swaggered to mount the high mast, bracing the biting wind with a view upon the curve of the horizon. Poetry is not dead or dying, as some would have you believe. It is alive and gnashing, and comes fully loaded.

The poets plying their craft in the folds of this issue of The Enchanting Verses Literary Review are testament to that—on, O so many levels and layers. Each from diverse backgrounds and cultures (and despite them—despite too their varied forms and approaches) as an unlikely collective, these poets have one thing in common: they are all writing in a distinctly modern idiom. And, whether the poet works with a clarity of vision or within seemingly feverish abstractions, there are many depths to be plumbed here.

I would rather not pluck an individual poem or poet from this oddly shaped hat. I would rather let these verses speak for themselves—not for any other reason than to let each word nudge its neighbor, each line unfold upon the next in a sweep of cross-cultural synesthesia.  Yes, the cross-section (if viewed with a more empirical eye) is bold and richly diverse. There are poets here who write as survivors of twentieth century tyranny and oppression; there are those who write from a calm of democratic continents and domestic bliss (although we will be quick to note that more often than not, appearances can be deceiving). There are others taking the scholarly approach who wish to observe their world more anonymously, reinterpreting space in a reinvention of past classics, and others still, who wish to navigate us through the headwaters of post-modernist abstraction. Each approach, of course, is as valid as the next.

Imagine, if you will, that you are far from the madding crowd, alone in a forest or perhaps traversing a mountain chain, deep in an underground cave among stalagmites and their polar opposites—and then, let these poems written by poets from the Everywhere, populate you with their vast protuberances, allow them to seep under your skin and carry you further on your journeys; allow them to become your most singular acquaintances or your oldest friends. And, thank them, honor them (as I have) multiple times, for giving us their versions of the world—and how the words have become their songs, their imaginings, their modern poems.

What a rich, profound, moving armory this is. These poets are very much alive.

Marc Vincenz, Guest Editor (Issue XXI)

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The Enchanting Poet for Issue XXI 2015

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Gail Dendy

Poems & 
Biography 



Editor's Choice for Issue XXI 2015

Macedonian Nomination

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Philip Fried

Poems & 
Biography




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Zvonko Taneski

Poems & Biography


Other Poets and Poems

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Read Poems by Mia Avramut

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Read Poems by F.J. Bergmann

PictureShaindel Beers











Read Poems by Shaindel Beers

PictureTom Bradley











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​Read Poems by Tom Bradley



PictureRae Desmond Jones










    Read Ghazals by Rae Desmond Jones


PictureKeith Flynn












Read Poems by Keith Flynn

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Read Poems by Marilyn Kallet

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Read Poems by Ming Di


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Read Poems by Laura Orem

PictureAnne Elezabeth Pluto











​​Read Poems by Anne Elezabeth Pluto



PictureBernd Sauermann

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Read Poems by Bernd Sauermann 

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Read Poems by Michael Ruby 

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Read Poems by Larissa Shmailo

PictureMark Statman












        Read Poems by Mark Statman

PictureOcean Vuong












Read Poem by Ocean Vuong


PictureRandi Ward












Read Poems by Randi Ward

PictureEdward Wells, II











              Read Poems by Edward Wells, II


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Read Ghazals by Jennifer Reeser


                                                                           Translation 
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Katie Farris
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Ming Di
Read Poem by Liao Yiwu
Translated from the Chinese by Katie Farris with Ming Di

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Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac
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Hélène Cardona

Read Two excerpts from Beyond Elsewhere (Plus loin qu’ailleurs, Éditions du Cygne, 2013), a long prose poem by Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac, translated from the French by Hélène Cardona



Book Reviews

PictureFelino A. Soriano
Parabola Dreams
Silvia Scheibli & Alan Britt
Bitter Oleander Press, 2013
113 pages
ISBN 978-0-9786335-9-2
$16.00
Reviewed by Felino A. Soriano


Read the Review Here


Three book Reviews by Michael Gillan Maxwell

PictureMichael Gillan Maxwell
Belmont
Stephen Burt

Greywolf Press, 2013
93 pages
ISBN 978-1555976446
$ 16.00


Read the Review Here

Waiting For Bluebeard

Helen Ivory
Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2013
112 pages
ISBN 978-1852249755
£9.95


Read the Review Here
Sputnik’s Cousin
Kent MacCarter

Transit Lounge, 2014
144 pages
ISBN 9781921924675
AUS $ 24.00


Read the Review Here

Research & Essays

PictureT Thilleman
Orogeny/Erogeny: The “nonsense” of language and the poetics of Ed Dorn
by
T Thilleman


Read the Essay Here


PictureMarc Vincenz
Erika Burkart: Fragments, Shards, and Visions
by
by Marc Vincenz 


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    • 2011 Issues >
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      • ISSUE XXI February 2015
      • Contemporary Indian English Poetry ISSUE XXII November 2015
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      • ISSUE XXIII August 2016
      • Poetry From Ireland ISSUE XXIV December 2016
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      • ISSUE XXV August 2017
      • ISSUE XXVI December 2017
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      • ISSUE XXVII July 2018
      • ISSUE XXVIII November 2018
    • 2019 Issues >
      • ISSUE XXIX July 2019
    • 2020 ISSUES >
      • Issue XXX February 2020
      • ISSUE XXXI December 2020
  • Collaborations
    • Macedonian Collaboration
    • Collaboration with Dutch Foundation for Literature
  • Interviews
  • Prose on Poetry and Poets
    • 2010-2013 >
      • Sylvia Plath by Dr. Nidhi Mehta >
        • Chapter-1(Sylvia Plath)
        • Chapter-2(Sylvia Plath)
        • Chapter-3(Sylvia Plath)
        • Chapter-4(Sylvia Plath)
        • Chapter-5(Sylvia Plath)
        • Chapter-6(Sylvia Plath)
      • Prose Poems of Tagore by Dr. Bina Biswas >
        • Chapter-1(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-2(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-3(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-4(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-5(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-6(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-7(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-8(Rabindranath Tagore)
        • Chapter-9(Rabindranath Tagore)
      • Kazi Nazrul Islam by Dr. Shamenaz Shaikh >
        • Chapter 1(Nazrul Islam)
        • Chapter 2(Nazrul Islam)
        • Chapter 3(Nazrul Islam)
      • Kabir's Poetry by Dr. Anshu Pandey >
        • Chapter 1(Kabir's Poetry)
        • Chapter 2(Kabir's Poetry)
        • Chapter 3(Kabir's Poetry)
      • My mind's not right by Dr. Vicky Gilpin >
        • Chapter- 1 Dr. Vicky Gilpin
        • Chapter-2 Dr. Vicky Gilpin
        • Chapter-3 Dr. Vicky Gilpin
        • Chapter-4 Dr. Vicky Gilpin
      • On Poetry & Poets by Abhay K.
      • Poetry of Kamla Das –A True Voice Of Bourgeoisie Women In India by Dr.Shikha Saxena
      • Identity Issues in the Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel by Dr.Arvind Nawale & Prashant Mothe*
      • Nissim Ezekiel’s Latter-Day Psalms: His Religious and Philosophical Speculations By Dr. Pallavi Srivastava
      • The Moping Owl : the Epitome of Melancholy by Zinia Mitra
      • Gary Soto’s Vision of Chicano Experiences: The Elements of San Joaquin and Human Nature by Paula Hayes
      • Sri Aurobindo: A Poet By Aju Mukhopadhyay
      • Wordsworthian Romanticism in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra: Nature and the Reflective Capabilities of a Poetic Self by Paula Hayes
      • Reflective Journey of T.S. Eliot: From Philosophy to Poetry by Syed Ahmad Raza Abidi
      • North East Indian Poetry: ‘Peace’ in Violence by Ananya .S. Guha
    • 2014-2015 >
      • From The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry Adam Wyeth
      • Alchemy’s Drama: Conflict, Resolution and Poiesis in the Poetic Work of Art by Michelle Bitting
      • Amir Khushrau: The Musical Soul of India by Dr. Shamenaz
      • PUT YOUR HANDS ON ME: POETRY'S EROTIC ART by Elena Karina Byrne
      • Celtic and Urban Landscapes in Irish Poetry by Linda Ibbotson
      • Trickster at the African Crossroads and the Bridge to the Blues in America by Michelle Bitting
    • 2015-2016 >
      • Orogeny/Erogeny: The “nonsense” of language and the poetics of Ed Dorn T Thilleman
      • Erika Burkart: Fragments, Shards, and Visions by Marc Vincenz
      • English Women Poets and Indian politics
    • 2016-2017 >
      • Children’s Poetry in India- A Case Study of Adil Jussawalla and Ananya Guha by Shruti Sareen
      • Thirteen Thoughts on Poetry in the Digital Age by Mandy kAHN
    • 2017-2018 >
      • From Self-Portrait with Dogwood: A Route of Evanescence by Christopher Merrill
      • Impure Poetry by Tony Barnstone
      • On the Poets: Contributors in Context by Donald Gardner
      • Punching above its Weight: Dutch Poetry in English, a Selection, 2013-2017 by Jane Draycott
  • Print Editions