Autumn 2019
Issue 94
£7.95
Physical magazine. Includes free UK shipping.
The Autumn issue of Poetry London showcases new work from Mimi Khalvati, Anthony Anaxagorou, Karen Solie, and Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, among many others, including the winning poems of the Poetry London Clore Prize.
We also feature poetry in translation, from Bulgarian, Galician, Romanian, and Russian, and voices from both sides of the Atlantic.
In the feature essay, Karen Solie surveys the field of poetry in an era of climate catastrophe. Meanwhile, Karen McCarthy Woolf interviews Ishion Hutchinson about islands and cultures of the sea.
In reviews, Nisha Ramayya examines three books at the intersection of feminism and the occult. We also cover new collections by Jane Yeh, Jonathan Edwards and Layli Long Soldier.
Discover more from this issue…
-
Online Exclusive
-
Online Exclusive
-
Online Exclusive
Contents
Notes
Editorial by Martha Sprackland
Cathedral Thinking
Poems
Mimi Khalvati
Eggs
‘Petites Salissures’
Very
Lucy Mercer
The minutes
of hexagram 17
Where’s Wally?
Baby Alphabet: Mother Alphabet
Annie Fan
Magnificat
Karen Solie
Wellwater
Fee Griffin
Weir Trollies
Simon Armitage
from New Cemetery
Lila Matsumoto
Trombone
Right of way
Also delicious
Geronimo’s house
Katy Kim
Arcadia
Anthony Anaxagorou
Things Already Lost
Sophie Klahr
Driving Through Oregon, Listening to the Radio
Driving Through Texas, Listening to the Radio
Joan Fleming
Dear John
Mukahang Limbu
Golden Shovel
Daniil Kharms
Pushkin and Gogol
The Optical Illusion
Kathryn Simmonds
The Night I Died
D Nurkse
At Mount Sinai
Emilian Galaicu-Păun
[in my arms her body trembled…]
Theresa Lola
Come back I am Water
Manuel Rivas
Five Emigrants
Maia Siegal
His Pregnancy Poem
Nadya Radulova
We will not sleep
Ishion Hutchinson
A London Epilogue
John McAuliffe
Blown Away
Sally Van Doren
Between the Bed and the Clock
Mona Arshi
Yellows
Competition
1st prize: Roger Bloor
The Ghost of Molly Leigh Pleads, Yes Cries for Exemplarie Justice Against the Arbitrarie, Un-exampled Injustice of Her Accusers
2nd prize: Amaan Hyder
duas
3rd prize: Anita Pati
Manju
Notes on Contributors
Reviews and Features
Sing It Again
Karen Solie on poetry in the age of climate crisis
Your Whole Blood System
Karen McCarthy Woolf talks to Ishion Hutchinson
Not a Secret Power
Nisha Ramayya on Francesca Lisette, MacGillivray and Rebecca Tamás
Speaking and Listening
Sarala Estruch on Hannah Lowe, Natalie Linh Bolderston, Nina Mingya Powles and L Kiew
The Facts of Our Lives
Kathryn Gray on Jonathan Edwards and Zoë Brigley
Staff-Wielding, Shouting
Gareth Farmer on innovative Welsh poetry
Physical Reminders
Dave Coates on Layli Long Soldier and Tommy Pico
The Poet as Witness
Leo Boix on Carolyn Forché
Even when joy is amputated
Alice Hiller on Fatimah Asghar, Theresa Lola and Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Amid the Damage
Jack Belloli on Geoffrey Hill, Ellen Hinsey and Fred D’Aguiar
Hybrid Creatures
Jake Morris-Campbell on Jen Campbell, Sarah Cave, Suzannah Evans and Isabel Galleymore
Consumption and Desire
Maryam Hessavi on Wayne Holloway-Smith, Emily Critchley and Jack Underwood
‘My words are buried deep’
Kate Potts on Jane Yeh, Julia Copus and J O Morgan
