Summer 2018
Issue 90
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The Summer 2018 issue features new poems from Alice Notley, described by the Poetry Foundation as ‘one of America’s greatest living poets’, alongside poems from Colette Bryce, Karen Solie, Mark Waldron, Kwame Dawes and John McCullough. Newcomers to the magazine include Meryl Pugh, Crispin Best, Lottie Howson, George Ayres, Fiona Moore and Dominic Leonard. Plus new translations from Ciaran Carson and Chenxin Jiang.
This issue’s Essay features Kathryn Maris writing on painting, poetry and the female gaze and introducing the exhibition Slatterns, which she is curating at the APT Gallery in Deptford. It is followed by new poems commissioned for the exhibition including work by Rachael Allen, Natasha Tretheway and Karen McCarthy Woolf.
In Reviews and Features, Emily Hasler interviews Dylan Thomas prize-winner Kayo Chingonyi and André Naffis-Sahely considers the reputation of Aimé Césaire. New collections reviewed include books by Danez Smith, Kaveh Akbar, Oli Hazzard, Sophie Collins, James Brookes, Jenna Clake and Hannah Sullivan.
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Contents
Notes
Editorial by Martha Kapos
Ut Pictura Poesis
Poems
Colette Bryce
Cuba
George Ayres
Open Loops
Broken Loops
Karen Solie
Ancient Remedies with Contemporary Applications Currently in Development
Matthew Sweeney
The Albatross
Mark Waldron
The Wild West
Saruk Mohajeran
Meryl Pugh
a regular house angel
from Grottoes
Alice Notley
Creating the Memory Collage
Jimi Hendrix Anecdote
Crispin Best
but do dolphins want to swim with me
Dominic Leonard
Iafnlengd
Haruspex
Jean Follain
Six poems translated from the French by Ciaran Carson
Orders
Time imperturbable
Vision of a child
Same old story
Empty garment
Black armour
Lottie Howson
Summer
Sunday
Scaffold
Kwame Dawes
In Your Absence
Fiona Moore
North to south: facing backwards you don’t know where to look –
John McCullough
Notes for a Cheery Post-Apocalyptic Short
Jiang Hao
Upon waking, the morning of June 27th
Offhand poem
Notes on contributors
Reviews & Features
Curating Slatterns
Kathryn Maris on painting, poetry and the female gaze
Rachael Allen
Lunatic Urbaine
Dilemma with Jane
Doldrums
Simple Men
Volcano in Russia
The Girls of Situations
Isobel Dixon
The Tempest
Geraldine Clarkson
Island Home for Isabelle Huppert (La Truite) [Extract]
Natasha Trethewey
Waterborne
Anita Pati
Paperdolls, or where are my curly scrolls of sisters?
Karen McCarthy Woolf
Souls of the Sea
Sophie Collins
Thank You for Your Honesty
A Kind of Masquerade
Kayo Chingonyi talks to Emily Hasler
Papa Césaire’s Long Shadow
André Naffis-Sahely on the crafted reputation of the father of Négritude
Mothers and Daughters
Karen McCarthy Woolf on contrasting explorations of early experience
An ‘I’ For An ‘I’
Chrissy Williams on the vanishing self in lyric poetry
Memorable Specificities
Declan Ryan on poetry of the dispossessed
Forthright and Dissolving Selves
Jon Stone on two confident younger poets
The Body of the Text
Mary Jean Chan on two essential anthologies
A Banquet for The Brave
Maryam Hessavi on passionate collections that refresh the page
Frailty and Resistance
Caleb Klaces on poetry of inner and outer health
Brains Full of Thunderstorms
Claire Trévien on three exuberant first collections
Revisiting the Revolution
Claire Crowther finds poets exploring Soviet-era aesthetics to cast light on contemporary empires
Without Caricature or Anecdote
John Clegg on the productive anonymity of Peter Robinson’s style
