Spring 2025

Issue 110

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The Spring 2025 issue includes new poems by featured author Vidyan Ravinthiran, as well as new work by Daljit Nagra, Vona Groarke, Paul Farley, Moniza Alvi, Alan Gillis, and Karen McCarthy Woolf. This exciting issue also introduces a vital prose piece by Jennifer Lee Tsai on the work of Julia Kristeva. Hasti and Oluwaseun Olayiwola jointly review the collection Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo. The reviews section contains criticism by Zakia Carpenter-Hall, Patrick Romero McCafferty, Katrina Naomi, and more.

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Contents

Editorial

Niall Campbell Editorial

Poems

  • Paul Farley Three Rings / The Rout at Brunanburh
  • Jo Bratten Wherefore All This Wormy Circumstance
  • Audrey Molloy The First Worst Thing
  • Katharine Towers The Lark Ascending
  • Gwyneth Lewis Every Book is Your First, Every Book is Your Last / First Rain in Paradise
  • Alan Gillis The Queensferry Bridge / Midsummer
  • Corsino Fortes  Mestiço: Mestiça / Mestizo: Mestiza / Girassol / Sunflower
  • Amit Majmudar Cat’s Cradle
  • Alexa Patrick let me explain
  • Sean Borodale from Pond Life: 24th October Night, Rain / from Pond Life: 15th April Biteless / from Pond Life: 3rd October Lostest
  • Campbell McGrath When I Hear the Young Poets
  • Vona Groarke Hindsight
  • Lucy Holme Auspice of Chrysaora Hysoscella
  • Kate Wakeling Chopin’s Prelude in D-flat Major, Op. 28 No. 15 (‘Raindrop’)
  • Maria Isakova Bennett Kropyvnytskyi to Liverpool, 1907
  • Andrew Neilson Doors
  • Sarah Hesketh Letter from Andrei Aliaksandru
  • Karen McCarthy Woolf Fragile Dreams
  • Kim Moore Bedtime Abecedarian
  • Jake Hawkey The Wrappers
  • Vanessa Lampert The Demystified Heart
  • Ben Wilkinson Ghost
  • Juana Peñate Montejo Girl, xCh’ok
  • Maitreyabandhu Family Photographs / One for Sorrow
  • Esther Kondo Heller Barry & Glodean
  • Karen Solie The Grasslands
  • Charles Lang Land Rover
  • Vidyan Ravinthiran A fisherman / My mother’s English

Selected Essays & Reviews

  • Isabelle Baafi On Legacy
  • Jennifer Lee Tsai A Matrilineal Semiotic. Responding to the work of Julia Kristeva
  • Hasti and Oluwaseun Olayiwola ‘to us you return’. Review a poignant and illuminating debut
  • Zakia Carpenter-Hall Celebrating Survival. On three collections that navigate grief and reach across generations
  • Patrick Romero McCafferty On Ruin and Warld-luve. On two collections exploring communion with the natural world
  • Jenna Clake Increments of Noticing. On three collections that explore the politics of how we engage with the natural world
  • Katrina Naomi Writing Forward, Looking Back. On four pamphlets that reach for new forms to examine loss, defiance, and hope
  • Benjamin J Larner Remnants of a Mind. On three collections that use technology and mass media to de- and reconstruct concepts of identity in the postmodern world

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