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The North Is
The North Is by Richard Carl Mather Rain strikes terraces stacked in brown brick And wind blows through the underpass. Two...
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)


Confronting the Dead
By Richard Carl Mather Confronting the Dead – 26th March 2025 So, descend the steep hill Slowly, go on Go past the lunch cart ...
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)
Meet-up
By Richard Carl Mather Friends gather round a pub table, sip drinks from tall glasses, exchange work and family news, complain about...
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)


Night Sketches
By Richard Carl Mather Over Lytham St Annes, Liverpool and Leeds, Manchester too, there's a full moon in white light suspended ...
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)


Lancaster Apparition
Lancaster bleached by rain –
a wet wind blows
through a line of washing.
Fog frost, petrol odour,
urban towertops
vanish in the aerial grey
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)


River Irwell
A mallard stops, strums
His feathers, beats his wings,
Ready to fly over this stretch
Of blue-lined water
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)


In the Dark, Dreaming
By Richard Mather (Inspired, in part, by John Milton’s Paradise Lost , Book 5: 108-113) Tonight I am not in my right mind. It was the...
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)


Verses on John Milton’s Paradise Regained, Book IV (“Unobserved Home to His Mother’s House Private Returned”)
By Richard Mather “Stuck in this uneasy station, what else To do but to let these words I write (Knowing that you, Son of God, Will never...
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)


Above Heroic (Though in Secret Done)
By Richard Mather Exile, or ignominy, or bonds, or pain You must wait for courage or grace but fate Is stubborn. Waiting is very...
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)


Surfaces, Simulacra and Sight
By Richard Mather Simulacra peel Continually from the body’s Surface, each image Bearing the appearance of the Part it belongs to. A...
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)


Made of Light
By Richard Mather Everything is made of light. Everything is light, of differing gradations and qualities, from the big bang to the...
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)


Portrait, Or: Idea of a Body without Organs: 'Face Value'
Without division or interval,
the body appears as pure form
over content, surface without depth.
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)


Adam the Devil Becomes
Expecting nothing but laughter and applause,
Adam hears on all sides sounds of derision,
Harshly sibilant.
All were transformed to serpents
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)


These Words Are Not My Words
Words like mosquitoes swarming / Around me, pestering
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)


Language Speaks for Itself
What is language? Where does it come from and what does it want (from us)?
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)


Money Is Everything
By Richard Mather No, I don’t wish to talk about money. In no way does it interest me. I seek an infinite leap beyond money. Even with my...
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)


The Darkness of This House
By Richard Mather Making his advances in tall steps, Davie marks Suzie standing small at the kitchen sink. She drops something, holds...
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)

Under a Spinozan Lens: Israel, Zionism and Bob Dylan’s ‘Neighborhood Bully’
By Richard Mather [Article originally published on academia.edu for Holocaust Memorial Day / Yom HaShoah on 27th January 2024. Image:...
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)

Schopenhauer's Flowers
Not the growing stem or the leaf blowing in the wind; not the opening bud or the emerging radicle; not the fourfold root yearning for water.
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)


Presentation of Self
By Richard Mather I am only fully actual when determined in all of my parts, when I am the sum of all predicates that can be attributed...
Richard Carl Mather (Lancaster, England)
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