Summer 2025
Issue 111
£12.00
Physical magazine. Includes free UK shipping.
Our Summer 2025 issue includes new poems by Carl Phillips, Mona Arshi, Clare Pollard, David Constantine, and Sean O’Brien. The issue also includes prose from Jacob Polley and Will Harris, and reviews of Amy De’Ath, Ella Frears, Dzifa Benson and Ruth Padel, and more.
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Contents
Editorial
Niall Campbell Editorial
Poems
- Tomorrow / For Now Stay Close
- Lines on His 42nd Birthday / The Bad News
- Scalloped / Feston
- Holy
- Seaweed – Ethernan / Definitions of a culture
- Lydia…
- Bet
- Apus Apus
- Not Writing
- Sestina for Elizabeth Bishop
- The Leafy Sea Dragon
- Abbaye de St-Vivant
- The Little Mermaid Changes Her Mind
- 12 Play
- Lisbon
- Jhumka / Understood
- Where the Quartz Lens Hunts for the Thing that has No Mass
- My Familiar
- Lamentation Once Again
- Unshame / One of His Walks / Kisser
- Here,
- A Wandering
- Homing
- The Wooden Chair, the Window, Moon, Wooden Kitchen Table / His Hands
- Self-Portrait in Mandopop
- Pre-Rave Checklist
- Perhaps the angels
- Juvenilia
- Lilac Two-Piece
- Unmasking
- Love
- goings on in waldron woods
- As If, A Land Called
- Carol and me I think 1985 / (and I gave them away also)
- Windfall
- Nocturia
- Tiree, December
- Outsiders
- A Butcher / Station Clock
Selected Essays & Reviews
- Isabelle Baafi Into and Against Monstrosity
- Isabelle Baafi interviews Oluwaseun Olayiwola Between the Seen and the Unseen: a pas de deux
- Clare Pollard Portrait of a Girl. On two recent collections exploring the nuances of girl- and womanhood
- Thembe Mvula They Were Here. On three recent collections that explore the enduring significance of names and naming
- Andrew Spragg Moulded by Catastrophe. On three collections that navigate eras and environments of crisis with wit and verve
- Sophia Georghiou Fragments of Desire. On explorations of gender, desire, and transformation in three recent collections
