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Poetry London buy now

Spring 11

Poems

Vera Pavlova

An Apollo swinging an axe • You who do not love your third husbands • Shall I drown (Ophelia)? • A child is a clay piggy-bank • We know how to love the dead

Maurice Riordan

The Nests • The Poacher

Julia Copus

The Particella of Franz Xaver Süssmayr

André Naffis-Sahely

The Translator

Rosie Shepperd

After two weeks of insomnia, I move into the loft space with other pastry chefs

Nick Laird

The Motive • Collusion

Deryn Rees-Jones

from The Songs of Elisabeth So

Andrew McDonnell

The Greyhound

Fiona Moore

Postcard

Jan Wagner

from eighteen pies

Asa Boxer

Night Shift

Asa Boxer

The Burns Rimfire

Judy Brown

On the First Night in the Cottage • You Said It Was a Mistake for Me to Buy

Judy Brown

The Souvenirs

Kerry Hardie

The zebra stood in the night

Ahren Warner

Troia Nova

Avery Slater

The Existence of Sutural Bones: 1533

Vénus Khoury-Ghata

House cut out of a children’s picture book • Sun hung from the ceiling with a braid of garlic

Moniza Alvi

from At the Time of Partition • Docility

Paul Batchelor

The Love Darg

Caleb Klaces

Towards Selection

Eugene Dubnov

Hurled • The sedge along the river stirs • The Quarry • Ring Doves

Liz Berry

Woodkeeper

Emma Page

California

Reviews & Features

Wrestling with Angels

David Wheatley on Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill

Tense and Number

Claire Crowther on linguistically self-conscious poetry by Elizabeth Burns, Elaine Feinstein and Roy Fisher

On the Very Point of Opening

John McCullough on the plural visions of Mario Petrucci, Tom Lowenstein and S J Litherland

Ideas of the Sublime

Ahren Warner on C K Williams, Rae Armantrout and Angie Estes

Is It Any Good?

Tom Chivers on an anthology of new poets from Spread the Word and first collections by Anna Robinson and Christian Campbell

Light Songs and the Fuller Life

Sue Hubbard on Annie Freud, Kei Miller and Eleanor Cooke

Breaking the Silence

Ian Gregson on diverse critical writing by Ruth Padel, George Szirtes and others

Grief, Gravity and Tension

Julia Bird on substantial collections by Alan Brownjohn, Penelope Shuttle and Peter Sansom

The Mix-Master and the Dance of Words

Bill Manhire on Muldoon, Pound and McGonagall
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