Poems
C K Williams
Jew On Bridge
Clare Pollard
Waiting for the Kettle to Boil, Lancashire
Penelope Shuttle
Sandgrain and Hourglass Song
Sam Gardiner
Other Love Essay, Waiter!
Swithun Cooper
Blood and the Neighbours
Joe Dunthorne
Intelligent Animals, On Losing Your Memory
Paula Bohince
Evening Walk, Night Vision
Francisco Hernández
The Degradation of Spring
Leontia Flynn
The Pin-Hole Camera, Mellaril
Ben Holden
Rain • Raver
Anja König
Darwin at the Car Museum
Fleur Adcock
Having Sex with the Dead, The Anaesthetist
Mick Wood
Cushing
Marie-Claire Bancquart
Transmutations
Abdulkareem Kasid
The Shroud, The Second Mourning
Susan Wicks
Black Dog
Patrick McGuinness
The Empty Frame • Blue
Gerald Dawe
Shortcuts
Denise Saul
The Bride Stripped Bare
Alan Brownjohn
A Deselection
W N Herbert
Stookie, Worn to the Bone, You Find This, Inscribed Thereon
Jo Shapcott
Somewhat Unravelled
Reviews & Features
A Church of Oranges and Flies
Helen Mort on Selima Hill and ‘the female poem’
Not ‘Making it New’
Claire Crowther on the strength
and profundity of Ruth Stone and
Samuel Menashe
Approaching Simplicity
W N Herbert on Billy Collins,
Vona Groarke and Don Paterson’s
radically different methods of
achieving freshness
The Rich Margins
Tom Chivers on visionary lyric and
the language of labour in the poetry
of Thomas A Clark, Fred Voss and
Tom Leonard
Singular Selves
Fred D’Aguiar on the public and
private worlds of Imtiaz Dharker,
Chris McCully and Robert Sheppard
Points of Arrival
Philip Gross assesses the young guard
in new anthologies and pamphlets