We welcome the return of US poet Phillis Levin who joins Kim Addonizio, Simon Perchik and EG Cunningham: American poets appearing in Poetry London for the first time. Billy Ramsell and Geraldine Mitchell from Ireland are also newcomers to the magazine.

We have new poems from Jack Underwood, Stephen Knight, Hannah Lowe, Michael Symmons Roberts, Mark Waldron and John Welch, among others, plus translations from the French, Dutch and Portuguese.  New voices to the magazine include Rowland Bagnall, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Shauna Robertson and Jessie Jones.

The Reviews and Features section opens with a remarkable essay from David Constantine on poetry and conflict, followed by an interview with Mark Ford conducted by Jack Underwood. There are reviews of new books by Paul Muldoon, Nicholas Moore, Sujata Bhatt, Sam Riviere and Elaine Feinstein along with first collections and much else!

Contents

Notes

Editorial by Martha Kapos, Poetry Co-Editor
Non-Poetry at Poetry London

Poems

Jack Underwood
Letter of Health | Reading the Milk | Inventory of Friends

Simon Perchik
Two Poems

Hannah Lowe
Borderliner | Brown Eyes Blue

Michael Symmons Roberts
I Shake Out My Coat | The Value of Nothing | Self-Portrait With Dog | The Immortality of the Crab

Billy Ramsell
On Not Being Gaudí | Flies in August | You ask for something beautiful

John Welch
from Folly’s Shade

Rowland Bagnall
Poem

Shauna Robertson
To Be Beautiful

Mark Waldron
The Uncertainty Principle | The Madding Wind

Hester Knibbe
The Flexibility of Stone | It is the eye my love

EG Cunningham
Annus / Versus

Eoghan Walls
On the Egg

Kim Addonizio
The Givens

Stephen Knight
A Portable Joye

François Migeot
Intermezzo

Phillis Levin
From a Rooftop | Summer Study

Wayne Holloway-Smith
The air itself | Sympathy for Toast | No Worries

Geraldine Mitchell
Before & After

João Luís Barreto Guimarães
Anonymous death

Chris Preddle
A Song for Lucy

Jessie Jones
Resolution | Leopold Stokowski is a Man of the Future

David Wheatley
The King O’er the Water

Reviews & Features

Essay: ‘And Thirty Thousand Other Ranks…’
David Constantine on the poets’ view of conflict

Interview: No Fine Frenzy
Mark Ford talks to Jack Underwood

Reviews: You Know It’s Coming
Vidyan Ravinthiran on Paul Muldoon’s performative rhymes

The Gaelic Objectivists
David Wheatley on a new anthology of Early Irish poetry

A Neo-Modernist Chameleon
Drew Milne on the revived reputation of Nicholas Moore

The Body’s Landscape
Karen McCarthy Woolf on John Kinsella, Chris McCabe and Marianne Boruch’s ways of looking

Myth-making, Map-making and Manipulation
WN Herbert on Sandeep Parmar, Tony Williams and Sam Riviere’s defining procedures for poetry

Dancing With Things As They Are
Martyn Crucefix on Rose Ausländer and Volker Braun, poets in a political century

The Closest Wound
Hilary Davies on a wartime work by René Char and Ciaran Carson’s Jean Follain

A River, A Country, A World
Edward Doegar on the shifting landscapes of Anthony Howell, Peter Robinson and Sujata Bhatt

Insisting on their Place
Sue Hubbard on new collections from Elaine Feinstein, Mimi Khalvati, Andrew Waterman and Michael Schmidt

Things Being Various
Katy Evans-Bush on first collections by Isabel Galleymore, Jemma Borg, Bobby Parker and Colette Sensier

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