Autumn 2018
Issue 91
£7.95
Physical magazine. Includes free UK shipping.
The Autumn 2018 issue features new poems from Rebecca Perry, Laura Elliott, David Harsent and Andrea Brady, as well as extracts from a new collaborative work between Vahni Capildeo and Chris McCabe, and the publication of poems from writer and visual artist Robert Herbert McClean’s filmwork Song for Ireland. The Autumn issue also includes poems from Poetry London Clore Prize winners Romalyn Ante, S K Kim, and Selima Hill.
The issues essay, by Daisy Lafarge, presents a searching contribution to the debate about contemporary poetry and motherhood. Meanwhile Jess Cotton interviews the American poet and astrologer Ariana Reines, covering topics that range from intimacy to resistance, and our critics review new collections by Vahni Capildeo, Mark Ford, Richard Scott, Tishani Doshi, Amy Key and many more.
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Contents
Notes
Editorial by Dai George
The poem as a site for hospitality and care; the poem as a force for resistance
Poems
Rebecca Perry
The mother dream
lilac crest
white paint
Laura Elliott
perennials
peonies
peaches
plasma
Robert Herbert McClean
Motörhead Expression 0.1.06 –
Motörhead Expression 0.1.08 –
Motörhead Expression 0.1.09 –
Motörhead Expression 0.1.10 –
Jericho Brown
Cakewalk
Andrea Brady
Clearing my head
St Lucy’s Day
Pivot
Susan Wicks
Dear Crane,
Dear Crane,
Dear Crane,
Vona Groarke
Against Monotony
Against Disappointment
Against Melancholy
Matthew Caley
Spring-fever
My Beautiful Comrade from The North
Becca Barniskis
‘Young America’
Too Bad For You
Vahni Capildeo and Chris McCabe
from Blackbox Testing
from Soft Oracle Machine
David Harsent
Two poems from Loss
COMPETITION
Romalyn Ante
Names
S K Kim
Children of the Revolution
Selima Hill
Heaven
Notes on contributors
Reviews & Features
Wildly Unmothered
Daisy Lafarge on the poetics of motherhood
The Condition of Intimacy
Jess Cotton in conversation with Ariana Reines
Between Self and Other
Kim Moore on Vahni Capildeo
Wit, Memory and Invention
Anthony Caleshu on Mark Ford and Ailbhe Darcy
An Epidemic of the Heart
A K Blakemore on Richard Scott, Abigail Parry and Leah Umansky
Nocturnal Walks
Robert Selby on Robin Robertson and Matthew Sweeney
Bodies of Power and Vulnerability
Srishti Krishnamoorthy-Cavell on Tishani Doshi and Faisal Mohyuddin
Page as Stage
Kate Potts on Owen Sheers, Luke Wright and Amy McCauley
Space, Time and Things
Katy Evans-Bush on J R Carpenter, Emily Hasler and Paul Deaton
The World Splintering Outwards
Nicholas Murray on Esther Morgan and Martina Evans
Material Potential
Jade Cuttle on Maria Ferenčcuhová, Doris Kareva and Tadeusz Dąabrowski
Diffusion and Refraction
Kat Peddie on Carol Watts, Alex Houen and Lila Matsumoto
Instead of Love
Jenna Clake on Amy Key, Bobby Parker and Matthew Halliday
