The Autumn 2024 issue includes three new poems by featured author Ian Duhig, as well as new work by Liz Berry, Mimi Khalvati, Pascale Petit, Fiona Sze-Lorrain, and Kathleen Jamie. This bumper issue also introduces a vibrant offering of prose with Vidyan Ravinthiran on the poetics of memory and displacement. Our interviews section finds Imtiaz Dharker in conversation with Benjamin J. Larner. The reviews section contains criticism by Declan Ryan, Godelieve de Bree, Rishi Dastidar, and more.

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Contents

Editorial

Niall Campbell Editorial

Poems

  • Liz Berry Blossom / I will give my love an apple / May
  • Nick Laird Dog in Godhead with Head of a Dog
  • Jayant Kashyap Oak
  • Martha Sprackland Elephant
  • Rachael Allen On Mei-meiu Berssenbrugge
  • Jenny Pagdin The Smell of Lebanon
  • Daniel Halpern Audrey: The Kiss
  • Sylee Gore Portrait of My Daughter at Eleven
  • David Morley The Oath / The Shyness of the Crown / You are Now Death-Spectating
  • Mimi Khalvati In the Goosehouse / What Kind of Tiger?
  • Fiona Sze-Lorrain Elegy in D Minor
  • Maithreyi Hughes A Storm in His Country
  • Ariana Benson On Promise
  • John Greening The Rose Lake
  • Pascale Petit The River
  • John Greening Wandering Between Two Worlds: Matthew Arnold
  • Dane Holt The War Sister
     
  • Poetry London Competition Winners
  • Hilary McDaniel A Hoosier Sonnet Definition
  • Júlia Alcañiz The Handkerchief
  • Chelsea Christine Hill Second Language Lesson
  • Tom Bailey Escape Room
     
  • Deryn Rees-Jones On Edmund Spenser / Three Sonnets from Hôtel Amour
  • Zara Meadows Bergamot
  • Sarah Westcott January / March / April / June / July
  • Boris Dralyuk Resolution
  • Sophie Argyris Faltering Bodies
  • Khairani Barokka kimera
  • Donovan McAbee Dedication to Craft
  • Kenneth Carroll In Defense of Ants
  • James Conor Patterson The Canal
  • Scott McKendry Snag
  • Janette Ayachi Spring is Fed by Winter’s Veins
  • Steve Ely October 7th
  • Rachel Long Lode / This One’s for You
  • Kathleen Jamie The Andromeda Galaxy

Selected Essays & Reviews

  • Isabelle Baafi Looking vs Seeing
  • Vidyan Ravinthiran Four Versions of a Field. On evolving poetics of memory and displacement
  • Benjamin J Larner interviews Imtiaz Dharker Walking in the Shadows, Standing in the Light
  • Rishi Dastidar Uncommon Prayers for Joy. Three striking and playful new collections
  • Rowland Bagnall Observation Notes. On three books that explore the complexities of perceiving people, landscapes and art
  • Nicola Healey Lost in Time and Space. On two mindful collections navigating pyschogeography and existential imbalance
  • Declan Ryan Painting with Light. On the overdue corpus of a landmark poet
  • Godelieve de Bree Reckoning with Loss. On three collections that fracture language in order to navigate forms of grief

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