Poems in the brain
Maurice Riordan, Poetry Editor
Melissa Range
Force
September Trees
New Heavens, New Earth
Jacob Polley
The Cheapjack
Mirror
Night-doll
Tamar Yoseloff
Shallott
Robin Robertson
The Couple
Fire Graffiti
Ode to a Double Autumn
Nuptials
Paul Muldoon
From The Old Country
Sean O’Brien
From The Inferno (Canto XXIV)
Thieves
Tom Sleigh
Archaic Figures
Julian Turner
The Myth of Flight
After an Accident
Alison Brackenbury
Commuter
Zhai Yongming
From Jingan Village – June
Zhou Zan
Jay
Richard Tillinghast
In the Parking Lot of the Muffler Shop
Ruth Fainlight
Blankets
Jean Sprackland
Spilt
Physics
John Hartley Williams
This
White Asparagus
Three Poems
Sarah Corbett
Killer Whales on a Beach in Fiji
Priscilla Atkins
The Kitchen
The Day I Made Potato Latkes
Carol Rumens
A Glose on ‘The Trees’ by Philip Larkin
‘Philip Larkin, Writer’
Two Songs for Potters’ Fields
Colette Bryce
Self-portrait (In the Dark with Cigarette)
Gregory O’Donoghue
Charms
Four a.m.
VERSE THAT’S JACOBEAN IN
RANGE
DM Black reads first
books by Jane Yeh, Helen Farish and John Weston
HOW BEST TO CONFRONT OUR ERA
WN Herbert’s
close reading of Stewart Conn, David Harsent and Piotr Sommer
DID FENOLLOSA AND POUND GET IT WRONG?
Four poets discuss
aspects of Chinese poetry
AN INCALCULABLE LOSS
Sean O’Brien on Michael Donaghy’s posthumous collection
DISCOVERING A NEW POET
Grevel Lindop encounters Michael Ryan, Mark Strand, and DM Thomas
PSYCHODRAMA DOLLS, MULTIPLE MOONS
AND ULULATION
Anna Woodford enjoys work by Sharon Olds, Myra Schneider and Jane Duran
A PLACE WHERE POETRY LIVES
Kathryn Maris is beguiled by the Wordsworth Trust
PLACES, JUSTICE AND THE EYES OF WATER
George Szirtes’ admiration for Polly Clark, Carol Rumens and Alice
Oswald
POEMS FROM NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY
Roddy Lumsden assesses a new anthology
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