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Spring 2026 • Issue 113
Our Spring 2026 issue includes new work by Leontia Flynn, Courtney Conrad, Katrina Naomi, David Nash, Jenny Xie, and Jean Sprackland. We also have prose from Helena Nelson, Eliza Browning, an interview between Fiona Benson, Artur Dron and Yuliya Musakovska, and reviews of Juana Adcock, Olivia McCannon, Nick Makoha, Gustav Parker Hibbett, and more.
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Alice Allan, Matthew Buckley Smith
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Patchwork and Polyvocality
Helen Bowell
The form and content of Nina Mingya Powles’s second collection, In the Hollow of the Wave, is guided by the craft of sewing. The book opens with a version of Slipstitch, the pamphlet Powles published with Guillemot in 2024, in [...] -
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Prizing Our Poems: On Sustaining a Life in Poetry Beyond Recognition
Romalyn Ante, Marjorie Evasco
17th November 2025 Dear Tita Marj, Happy Autumn from my side of the world. It feels right to begin this conversation just as one major poetry book prize ceremony has ended here, and another is already on its way for [...]
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Category: Reviews
Patchwork and Polyvocality
Helen Bowell
The form and content of Nina Mingya Powles’s second collection, In the Hollow of the Wave, is guided by the craft of sewing. The book opens with a version of Slipstitch, the pamphlet Powles published with Guillemot in 2024, in [...] -
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‘Lament and battle cry’: poetry from wartime Ukraine
Fiona Benson
Ukrainian poet Artur Dron΄ published his debut collection Dormitory No. 6 in 2020. His second collection We Were Here (Ukraine: Old Lion, 2023) details his experience on the frontline as a soldier in the Ukrainian army; however, as Dron΄ says in his 2024 Literary Hub interview, the poems ‘were written at the front, but they are not about the war. They are about people who love more than they fear.’ Yuliya Musakovska translated We Were Here into English (UK: Jantar, 2025). All proceeds from both editions go towards Voices of Children, a foundation that provides assistance to children affected by the war. Musakovska also coordinates the Ukrainian Wartime Poetry Project in collaboration with the University of Exeter and has published six poetry collections, including The God of Freedom (2021), which was translated into English and shortlisted for the Lviv UNESCO City of Literature Award, and Stones and Nails (2024), her latest book. During her recent trip to the Lviv BookForum 2025, poet Fiona Benson was unable to pin down either Dron΄ or Musakovska for an interview, so this exchange took place by email afterwards.
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