Spring 2026
Issue 113
£12.00
Physical magazine. Includes free UK shipping.
Our Spring 2026 issue includes new work by Leontia Flynn, Courtney Conrad, Katrina Naomi, David Nash, Jenny Xie, and Jean Sprackland. We also have prose from Helena Nelson, Eliza Browning, an interview between Fiona Benson, Artur Dron and Yuliya Musakovska, and reviews of Juana Adcock, Olivia McCannon, Nick Makoha, Gustav Parker Hibbett, and more.
Discover more from this issue…
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Category: Interviews
‘Lament and battle cry’: poetry from wartime Ukraine
Fiona Benson
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Contents
Editorial
Niall Campbell Editorial
Poems
- From the Darkness
- Poem for Minnie / Poem for Philip / Poem to Kevin
- Spring Matin
- On Dancing Before Bed / Spoon
- dear insouciant sky
- The Dog, Francisco de Goya, 1819
- Anamnesis / Toward the Finite
- The Kid
- In Your Absence
- Letting Apples Fall with Louise Erdrich
- Origin Myth
- Self-Portrait as Perpetuity / The Pretender
- High Time / The Very Real Fear that the Sea Will Retreat Forever
- St Simeon the Stylite
- Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Twenty Years of Poetry Publishing in Scotland
- Spanish Blue Bells
- Sonnet in Which I Attempt to be a Better Person
- X, translated by Clara-Læïla Laudette / X (In the original)
- Sound Effects
- Brambleton Avenue
- Here be Dragons
- From Antichrist
- From Scavenger
- Coming Home from School
- Knap Howe
- The Causeway
- What is the point of all this?
- Scent of the Sun, translated by Christina Ng
- Your Last Christmas
- Young Sunflowers
- A Letter Outwards / A Letter Upwards
- Confounded
- From Goyle, Chert, Mire
- Glass Plate Negative
- No One Is Forgiven Unless Everyone Is
- Dear Owl
Selected Essays & Reviews
- Eliza Browning Parallel Wanderings: On a long-misunderstood poem whose form and interrogations have echoes in the present
- Fiona Benson ‘Lament and Battle Cry’: Poetry from Wartime Ukraine: Artur Dron’ & Yuliya Musakova interviewed
- Spencer Hupp The Sound of Home: On three poets whose stark uses of imagery and musicality conjure complicated questions about heritage
- Helen Bowell Patchwork and Polyvocality: On three books that weave memories and fragments of history into tapestries of possibility
- Ancci Uneasy Legacies: On three books that navigate familial and sociopolitical trauma
Kashif Sharma-Patel Mythologies of Being: On three books that invoke mythical figures to explore migration, race, and colonial legacies
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