Current Issue
Contents
Laura Blomvall and Stephen Grace Editorial
Poems
Kit Fan -- The River Vienne, Ten Haikus by Fan Kuan, The
Painted Garden in the Villa of Livia
Rahul Gupta -- א (Aleph)
Jon Stone -- Terminal Ballistics
Gerald Dawe -- Two Elegies
Astra Papachristodoulou -- flexland, zn for trauma
Lesley Saunders -- Three 'Gold' Poems
Jan Wagner (translated by Jamie Osborn) -- anna,
houdini in the mirror, shepherd's pie
Muzaffar alNawab (translated by Ahmed Khaleel) -- For the train and Hamad
Angie Spoto -- waiting for joy child, the honeymoon months
Sarah Cave -- 'I have nothing...'
James Coghill -- Dragonfly
David Wheatley -- Dip, Letter to Joseph Massey
Suzannah V. Evans -- Song of West Sands, Tambourine
Caitríona O’Reilly -- Eels, Fly
Art
David Morris -- Cooling Towers; Fishermen's Huts Skinningrove; Steel Making, Redcar; Evening Light, Whitby
Essay
Ríona Nic Congáil -- Irish-Language Women’s Poetry: Death and the Afterlife of Translation
‘Impertinent Questions’
featuring Caitríona O'Reilly
Reviews
Anna Svendsen on Thomas Dilworth and David Jones
Stephen Grace on Judith Willson
Notes on Contributors
Contents
Alex Alonso and Anna Mercer - Editorial
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