Oedipus is Innocent Nick Laird

Oedipus is Innocent Nick LairdNicolas Calas (1907 1988) was a truly international poet, critic and polemicist. He wrote in Greek, French and English. He designed a chess set with Andr Breton, wrote an anthropological study with Margaret Mead, appeared in a film by Hans Richter and first translated Louis Aragon, Benjamin Pret and TS Eliot into Greek. One of the early Greek Surrealists, he tried to combine avant garde poetics with Trotskyism, Freudianism and Marxism, first in

Ballad on the Western Beaches

Suzannah Evans

who had been spying

he is such a modest man

translated by Peter Oram

They belong to the hawk

and at its heart the transformative music that runs beneath words

Kathy Pimlott explores this through poetry which is sharp

Mariya Avvakumova

’ to illuminate the mother-daughter bond

Born with a hole for a mouth

Kops and Szirtes (another I was unaware was Jewish) - but space is not endless in a magazine