Launch: “along comes a war – Ukraine 2022 -2025”
A beautiful book of activist poetry and photography, bearing witness to the surreal, bitter experience of war in Ukraine, with a twist of hope—all profits to support [...]
Works In Progress—Activist Poetry
Philippe de Saint Maurice on why a new kind of poetry is needed: Often these days the poet rages at the dire state of the world’s global politics, too rarely confronted by [...]
Sicilian Haiku: Migrant Shadows, by Freddie Omm
We’re delighted to announce that MBB will be publishing Freddie Omm’s new book of poetry, Sicilian Haiku – Migrant Shadows, on 19 September 2024. A [...]
Freddie Omm, Franz Kafka, and the Sirens
"... the Ommnian multiverse at its most Kafkaesque" (Philippe de Saint Maurice) [...]
Wrap : Unwrap
We hope you enjoy these three haiku by MBB author Verity Worth, translated from the “Meditations” of Philippe de Saint Maurice: Photo by Tyler [...]
Shall I Compare You
for all those whose love is so fresh and strong it can seem unreal), a sonnet by freddie [...]
december blessing (haiku)
days shrink, night e x p a n d s – light and warmth of close kind friends make love more intense. * ** * freddie omm december [...]
Loving Light – haiku chain
I All my life I’ve loved beaches and the beauty of being on the edge * Where senses merge like sex in sand and sky in eyes we are everywhere * Feeling a moment like [...]
there’s something wrong with…
#haiku by freddie omm; photo by saltanat [...]
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