Our Autumn 2025 issue includes new work by Michael Symmons Roberts, Sarah Howe, Rebecca Goss, Marjorie Lotfi, and Nick Makoha. We also have prose from Lesley Harrison, Kim Moore, Leo Boix, and Kit Fan, an interview with Richard Scott, and reviews of Dianne Seuss, Imogen Cassels, Nia Davies, and more.

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Contents

Editorial

Niall Campbell Editorial

Poems

  • Carrie Etter Walking into Autumn
    Michael Symmons Roberts Taxonomy / You are Dust
  • Ernest Ògúnyẹmí The Panel-beater
  • Gérard Bocholier O night, translated by Victoria Moul
  • Victoria Moul Counterfactual
  • Marjorie Lotfi As Bad As / My Father’s Tongue
  • Sharon Black Lichens
  • Nick Makoha Another Room
  • Kit Fan On The Ghost of Eden by Chase Twichell / Between Two Pines
  • Matt Bryden Enquiry
  • Stewart Sanderson Form
  • Nasim Luczaj Broth
  • Carolene Kurien The Alpaca / And When Did the Insomnia Start?
  • Polly Clark Sculpture
  • Colin Bramwell Two for Morag
  • Philip Gross Gull Psalm
  • Christopher Kondrich As the Crow Flies
  • Derek Chan Elegy Etiquette
  • Lesley Harrison On Eli Payne Mandel’s The Grid / Cupido minimus the small blue butterfly / Andrena scotica the hawthorn bee
  • Jonathan Edwards My Grandfather Counting Money, 1982
  • Nazaret Ranea On the Tableland / En La Meseta
  • Ivan V. Lalić Mozart, translated by Francis R. Jones
  • Pia Tafdrup The Nightdress, translated by David McDuff
  • Freya Gillard The Knackerman
  • Rebecca Goss Changing Room / Recalcitrance, with Wasps
  • Alice Miller The Poet’s Burrs
     
  • Poetry London Single Poem Competition 2025
  • Rachel Curzon 1st place: There are enough poems about birds, and here is another
  • Hélène Demetriades 2nd place: Hiding Place
  • Clara-Læïla Laudette 3rd place: Things about myself I’d rather not know
     
  • Leo Boix On Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón / A Latin American Sonnet CLXXIX / A Latin American Sonnet XXII
  • Gabriel Levine Brislin from Lead White
  • Mathew Lyons Rites of Spring
  • Cathra Kelliher and then, in Vienna
  • Sebastian Páramo Turning Water into Flame, an Earthquake
  • Max Wallis Her Memory is Loosening
  • JLM Morton Repeating Patterns
  • Tristram Fane Saunders Notes from the Dig
  • Natalie Rice From the Dreamlife of Horses / View from an Upstairs Window
  • Fionn Andrews Dead Bishops
  • Jim Carruth Study of a Bull
  • Allis Hamilton Storm
  • Graeme Richardson Rewilding the Churchyard
  • Sarah Howe Foretokens/Cherries

Selected Essays & Reviews

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