John Wedgwood Clarke - Waste-oil tank, from Suite for Artificial Voices 1, 3

Judith Willson - When Yetta locked him in the garden shed, An optical experiment

Edward Doegar - Too Much, History

Wendy Cope - Ex, March 2013

Adam Crothers - Never Get Old, Brief Encounter

Jack Thacker - The Out Gang, The Sling

Chloe Stopa-Hunt - A Children's Song About Guns, Sycamore, Night Visit, Vox populi

Francesca Bratton - For E.B., Practical Advice No 1, Dream 1

Rachel Plummer - Me and My Parrots

Paul McMahon - The Pups in the Boghole

Peter Hughes - from Some Versions of Cavalcanti 39, 45, 48

David Troupes - Crows above Indian Brook

 

 

Art

 

Lisajane Braun - Hawthorns, After Peter Doig, Custodian, Sequoia Wellington from Arbor Vitae 

 

'Impertinent Questions' - featuring Deryn Rees-Jones

 

Reviews

 

Suzannah V. Evans on Adam Crothers

Anthony Huen on Luke Kennard

Billy Mills on Denise Riley

 

 

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Contents

 

Karl O'Hanlon - Editorial

 

Poems

 

Toby Martinez de las Rivas - from Black Sun 

Martin Malone  - Lords of the Ring, from The Unreturning

Charlotte Hoare - Livingstone St., 1. Citalpram, 2. Ferrous Sulphate

John Whale - Muzaffar Al-Nawab (translated by Ahmed Khaleel) - O My Murderer 

James Brookes - Charges from the Douche Apocalypse, Augustus Egg Buys 'The Death of Chatterton', On a Visit to a Frontline Service

Peter Robinson - Marriage Lines, Staring at the Sun

Erica McAlpine -  A Song for Lalage 

Matthew Sperling - 3 Poems 

John Challis - The Light in Rome, Phthisis 

Michael O'Neil - Criss-Cross, Porthmeor Beach

Melanie Challenger - from the libretto of The Immortal

Helen Tookey - Sudley Field (Dusk)

 

Essay

 

Luke Thompson - 'Voices of a silence': The Poetry of Sister Mary Agnes

 

Art

 

Nigel Brown - Of Poets and Cultures, from Albatross Neck

 

'Impertinent Questions'

 

featuring Helen Tookey

 

Reviews

 

Tim Lawrence on John Berryman

Stephen Grace on Peter Hughes

Amy McCauley on J.H. Prynne

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Contents

Karl O'Hanlon - Editorial

Poems

Paul Mills - Looking for America, The journey from Eastern Siberia to Tierra del Fuego, Andrew Marvell's Garden

Adam Crothers - Dirge, I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition the Human Condition Was In)

Kath McKay - 3472815

John Whale - Nephila, Caerostris Darwini

Sean Burn - vassily

Maureen N. McLane - Seal Cock, You Would Have Liked It, Prospect

Stewart Sanderson - The Rhyton of the Harvesters

C. P. Cavafy (translated by Evan Jones) - Anna Komnene, On Italian Shores, Apollonius of Tyana on Rhodes

JT Welsch - Solitude (1878-1880), Monroe County Evensong, Judge Wilhelm

Steven Roberts - The Cherry Birch

Roger Baxter - Rumpelstiltskin

Peter Davidson - Paul Mealor’s Blues, Rex Whistler’s Blues, August 1938

Steve Ely - Prologue to 'Big Billy'

David Troupes - Famine Stared Them In the Face, About This Time, In 1654, On the 8th of the Same Month

Evelyn Reynolds - Traveling Home: North-Central Oklahoma

Miriam Gamble - Horse of Winter, Macken's Van

Hugh Haughton (after Yves Bonnefoy) - ‘You say the word brambles’

Art

Jaff Seijas - From: Yeats'  Emblems of the 28 Lunar Phases

Reviews

 Karl O'Hanlon on Christopher Middleton

Jack Quin on Sinéad Morrissey