Summer 2023

Issue 105

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The Summer 2023 issue features three new poems from Jay Bernard, as well as new work by Ian Duhig, Meena Kandasamy, D. Nurkse, Yang Lian, Katharina Schultens, Victoria Chang, Pascale Petit, Declan Ryan, Sunnah Khan, Jamal Mehmood and lisa luxx, among many others. Translations include poems originally written in Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Nepali & Spanish by Mahmoud Darwish, José Luis Díaz-Granados, Amir Or, Katharina Schultens and Avinash Shrestha. Elsewhere, Isabelle Baafi interviews Don Paterson, while our reviews section carries criticism by Dzifa Benson, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Patrick Romero McCafferty and alice hiller.

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Contents

Editorial

Isabelle Baafi MYTHS AND MULTITUDES

Poems

  • Jay Bernard Free and Fair / Elmington Square / You are Invited Back to the land, Poster #22
  • Anastassis Vistonitis Old Stories
  • Andrew Jamison The Muse to the Poet After the Poet Becomes a Father
  • Declan Ryan Crisis Actor
  • Tristram Fane Saunders Bonfire, Battersea Park
  • Mariana Spada Bratislava
  • Caroline Bird Last Rites
  • Ben Wilkinson Adrift
  • Ciaran Berry The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg, 1976)
  • D. Nurkse The Interior
  • Donika Kelly I Did Not Mention The Moon But It Too Showed Out
  • Ian Duhig Forced
  • Jamal Mehmood Medina / Tunisia, by the Sea
  • John Fuller Purposes
  • José Luis Díaz-Granados Manuel José
  • Katharina Schultens Hunting Librarians
  • Pascale Petit My Book of the Dead
  • Omar Sakr On Finding the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Dante’s Inferno
  • Mona Kareem Hell’s Squadron
  • Stephanos Papadopoulos Bolinas
  • Sunnah Khan Portrait of My Father As A Postman
  • Tim Hunt A Poem for My New Friend Charlie Mariano
  • Victoria Chang Untitled #1, 2003
  • Yang Lian Asymmetry of Death
  • Linda Anderson Rede
  • Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick May Day
  • Tim Tim Cheng The Tattooist
  • Mahmoud Darwish Birds Die in Galilee
  • Amir Or When You Set Out
  • Anna Leahy Brackish
  • Avinash Shrestha Headland – 2e
  • lisa luxx choosing postcodes for the apocalypse
  • Meena Kandasamy THE TRANSMISSION OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGY DOES NOT MAY TAKE PLACE THROUGH THE EXCHANGE OF BODY FLUIDS

Selected Essays & Reviews

  • Isabelle Baafi interviews Don Paterson The Man, The Myth
  • Tom Branfoot The Men Behind the Mask. Three collections which explore performances of masculinity
  • Oluwaseun Olayiwola Untangling Selves. Three collections that navigate the rifts between personal and cultural identity
  • Patrick Romero McCafferty Tears in Things. Three collections that examine mortality through the lens of ecological breakdown
  • Dzifa Benson Resurrection Dance. Two debut collections that reanimate the long-forgotten past
  • alice hiller ‘A Tunnel of Ghosts’. Four pamphlets that revisit and repopulate the absences of the past
  • Richie McCaffery Ratios & Proportions. Three bold, highly-awaited collections
  • Geraldine Clarkson Wild Women. Three books of defiant naturalism and visceral desire
  • Jenny He Life Lessons. Four pamphlets that navigate the trials and triumphs of one’s formative years

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