Spring 2019
Issue 92
£7.95
Physical magazine. Includes free UK shipping.
The Spring issue features poems from Fred D’Aguiar, Daisy Lafarge, Dorothea Lasky, and Matthew Dickman. An essay by Will Harris explores the complexities of writing poetry from a particular moral vantage point, in a vital contribution to the debate about identity and the limits of craft that is shaping our critical moment. The interview sees Leo Boix talk to Fred D’Aguiar about his literary pantheon, on the eve of publishing his seventh collection, Translations from Memory. Meanwhile, our critics review new collections by Jericho Brown, Andrew McMillan, Raymond Antrobus, Kathryn Maris and Liz Berry. The issue closes with a moving tribute to the recently departed Matthew Sweeney, from his friend and former Poetry London reviews editor Tim Dooley.
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Contents
Notes
Editorial by Ahren Warner
On the affirmative
Poems
Heather Phillipson
hankering incarnate & the apocryphal sputum bath-craze
Daisy Lafarge
Feed
The Daughter Channel
Sholeh Wolpé
from The Abacus of Loss
Sam Riviere
from The Epigrams of Martial
Matthew Dickman
Airplane Above My Bed
Husbandry
Sean O’Brien
Anger
Rachael Allen
from Dig
Fred D’Aguiar
Axe
Sun Rises in Mid-City, LA
Fiona Sampson
Line, Manticore
Dorothea Lasky
The afterlife
The Anxiety Essay
Medium
Neon Void
Yu Xiang
Far
Dance
Jacob Polley
Once Upon Us
Mark Waldron
Sixteen Found Dogs
Buddies
Kit Fan
Green Snake
Michael Dickman
Butterfly Days
Mom’s Dogs
Wayne Holloway-Smith
Exposition Of Certain Types Of Social Isolation Using One Semi-Well-Made Choice Of Words Brett Dennen The Feelgood Pop Singer Has Sung
Keep the Friends
Notes on Contributors
Reviews and Features
The Ethics of Perspective
Will Harris on poetry and the moral subject
A Radical History of the World
Fred D’Aguiar talks to Leo Boix
Communality and Consequence
Helen Charman on Jericho Brown and Toby Martinez de las Rivas
What is the Language Using Us For?
Zoë Brigley Thompson on W S Graham
To Feel Held
Victoria Adukwei Bulley on Raymond Antrobus, Zaffar Kunial and Sohini Basak
As They Are
Jack Parlett on Andrew McMillan and David Tait
Significance-Amplifiers
John Clegg on Don Paterson
Traversing Borders of Air
Zakia Carpenter-Hall on Richard Georges and Loretta Collins Klobah
Slow Time
Evan Jones on Marianne Burton, Nick Laird and Kathryn Maris
Then and Now, Here and There
Humphrey Astley on Fiona Moore, Philip Hancock and Josephine Corcoran
Strange Shifting Navigations
Lucy Mercer on Helen Charman, Ella Frears, Holly Corfield Carr and Liz Berry
A Mock-Innocent Eye
Tim Dooley remembers Matthew Sweeney
