Summer 2010

Editorial by Martha Kapos, Assistant Poetry Editor
I have always been intrigued by the nightmarish Hans Andersen story about the man who becomes the servant of his own shadow.

Poems

Sharon Olds
Sleekit Cowrin’

Sharon Olds
Song the Breasts Sing to the Late-in-Life Boyfriend

Kona Macphee
My Life as a B Movie • An Announcement • Against Melancholy

Kathryn Simmonds
Life Coach Variations

Angie Estes
Shade • Note • Brief Encounter

Julian Stannard
Don’t Die • Well-Regulated Dumplings are Going Upwards

Phillis Levin
Tabula Rasa

Elaine Feinstein
A Garden in North Germany

Carola Luther
Smiling for the Camera

Valérie Rouzeau
Not Keeping My Nose Clean

Kathryn Maris
Street Sweeper

Kathryn Maris
The Devil Will Find Work for Idle Minds • Hilary Has Left the Building, Unless She Hasn’t

Joe Yule
Freckles

Ian Duhig
Border Ballad

Ian Duhig
Unmaking

Jane Routh
A Day’s Work

Matthew Gregory
A Portrait

Amir Or
Camera Obscura • Reflection

Deryn Rees-Jones
The Fetch

Daljit Nagra
The World’s Strongest Dad! • Confessions of a Coolly Woman

Jérôme Luc Martin
Dédicace

Rosie Shepperd
We tend to tug when we should gently push

Jen Campbell
When We Found the Tide

Christopher Horton
Something Not Quite Placed • And, yes, I have compared you to a goat • The Great Debate

John Haynes
from You

Tim Liardet
The Living and the Drowned •‘Sinking Water, Many Many Sinking Water’

Jessica Greenbaum
When Bonnard First Entered a Room and Olds Searched the Waves

Reviews & Features

Only One Age
Martyn Crucefix finds W S Merwin, Valerio Magrelli and Sinéad Morrissey observing different stages of life

With and Without Walls
Claire Crowther on debut collections by Sarah Hesketh, Dora Malech and Arda Collins

Difficult for the Poet, Not the Reader
Luke Kennard on directness and pleasure in poems by Caroline Bird, Anthony Howell and John Ash

World Famous (in New Zealand)
Bill Manhire on James K Baxter, the Pakeha Prophet

Miracles of Survival
Katy Evans-Bush on life and death in collections by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, C L Dallat and Dorothy Molloy

Against Correctness
Fred D’Aguiar on the healthy independence of E A Markham, Priscila Uppal and Vahni Capiledo

Figure in the Background
David Cooke on contrasting approaches to seriousness from Robin Robertson, Sarah Law and Peter Carpenter

A Guidebook of Darkness
Sue Hubbard delves deeper than irony and cleverness in the work of Philip Gross, Jasmine Donahaye and Yang Lian

Vive la Différance
Tim Dooley on an alternative anthology