Our Summer 2026 issue includes new work by Fiona Benson, Kwame Dawes, Andrew McMillan, Maya C. Popa, G.C. Waldrep and Victoria Chang. We also have prose from Tara Bergin, an interview between Dane Holt and Sinéad Morrissey, and reviews of Tom Paulin, Mona Arshi, Pascale Petit, Sarah Howe, and Luke Kennard.

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Contents

Editorial

Niall Campbell Editorial

Poems

  • Fiona Benson Arcade Games / Fifteen
  • Paul Maddern Green Flash, translated from Rayon Vert by Jules Supervielle
  • Jane Draycott Arctic Air Drift
  • Dolapo Demuren American Dream Sonnet
  • Supritha Rajan From Mosaic: Stone 284
  • Maya C. Popa The English Line
  • Maya Venters ‘You must change your life,’ etc…
  • Todd Turner The Negative Capability of a Horseman
  • Victoria Chang The Whale
  • Ben Verinder Consider the Lamprey
  • Tim Dooley Downsizing
  • Sima Qunsol Last Winter
  • G. C. Waldrep Raisbeck Pinfold
  • Andrew JamisonWhat is Your Angle?
  • J. T. Barbarese Restaurant Overlooking the Marina
  • Christopher Crawford Still, It Won’t Save You
  • Corinna Board May
  • Kwame Dawes Goodbye and Hello
  • Nia Broomhall Spiders / Some of the Circles I Saw in the Churchyard:
  • Eric Gregory Award Winners 2026
  • Rency Raquid Object Permanence
  • Ellie Grant Declaration
  • Anna Stockdale Architectural Digest
  • Jack Cooper Statuary
  • Bethany Handley Bedside Monopoly
  • Tara Bergin On ‘Notes from the House of Mercy’ / Notes from the House of Mercy
  • Nicola Healey Cow Parsley
  • Jayant Kashyap Blues
  • David Wheatley To Rosebay Willowherb
  • Helen Farish Clerkenwell, Midsummer
  • Emilie Jelinek The Anaesthetist Tells My Son to Count Back from Ten
  • Lynn Valentine The Paintbrush
  • Lauren Thomas Summer Job in the Gene Bank / Adaptations
  • Antony Huen Spheres of Influence
  • Lorraine Mariner My Grandma Leaves the Orphanage at Glin
  • Catherine Wilson Garry Aubergines
  • Shasta Hanif Ali Hatho Mein/Hands
  • Rachael Boast The Goings-on
  • / After the War
  • Olga Dermott-Bond 1953 and the Secret of Life
  • Andrew McMillan Crusoe
  • Paul Fenn The Extraction of Honey

Selected Essays & Reviews

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