The Lebanese-American French poet, Etel Adnan, won the International Griffin Prize for her book TIME (Nightboat 2019) --- a poetry of the postcard, as her translator, Sarah Riggs, observed. Here are some lines I've taken from that book, lines I find arresting and that conjure reflection: there's a time in autumn when the trees change their nature, and wake up beyond matter; then one sees them come back to their ordinary selves * I share in the properties of the sky. I grow li

[I wrote this piece for Devour (https://issuu.com/richardgrove1/docs/devour_-_panku_special_editioin__2_-_72dpi) in April 2020 as a response to my lockdown reality during the early stages of the pandemic.] Once upon a time I was a poet on a plane. Then Covid hit. Now I’m grounded … and writing pankus and all sorts of broken lines, some of which have morphed into other forms, such as the Korean sijo, which you can see in my poem below. Traditionally, it consists of a three-lin