Poetry

Martin Bennett

CALLIGRAM: Paris-Rome

I
n
the
twilight
air
over
southern
Rome
starlings
flight
after
swirling
flight
rewrite
Guillaume
APOLLINAIRE
11/1915 or         2015
FREEDOM                  LONDON
LIBERTY                           NAIROBI
SOLID-                                      MADRID
ARITY                                               PARIGI


TOUR EIFFEL
TORRE EIFFEL

Salut monde dont
Je suis la langue

Éloquente que ta
Bouche o Paris

Tire et tirera

Martin Bennett lives in Rome where he teaches and proofreads at the University of Tor Vergata while occasionally contributing articles to 'Wanted in Rome.' His collection of stories, West African Trickster Tales, was published by Oxford University Press. His work has appeared in Stand, Descant, Dalhousie Review and elsewhere. Bennett was 2015 winner of the John Dryden translation prize.