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		EDITORIAL
		Presiding Spirits Martha Kapos, Assistant Poetry Editor

		POEMS
		Carol Rumens Little Epic The Greenfinch On Being (sometimes) Vertical and Verbal Kathryn Maris Gangster The Boatman The Professor of Sadness Classified Ad Asa Boxer The Hunter Cat Nap The Polar Bear Penelope Shuttle The Soldier The Guide Jeff Dolven The Whale-Road Vénus Khoury-Ghata Five Poems from Interments George Szirtes At the Baths Cards in the Garden Robert Saxton Black Holes Deryn Rees-Jones Stormy Weather II A Chinese Lacquer Egg Christopher Reid Black Hole Recital High Stakes Alfred Corn Alf Laylah Wa Laylah Fig D Nurkse August at Truro David Constantine The Ice Statues Woman on a Swing The nudist beach that faces Leper Island Moniza Alvi Night Fish Swimming Robert Hamberger Psalm The Book and the Fly Mir Mahfuz Ali Our Booa The Last Apple in a Bowl of Fruit Mark Waldron There’s a small blurry dog Eamon Grennan March Hawk Wildflowers in a Glass of Water Ladybird and Mother Fiona Sampson The Plunge Carole Satyamurti Enough that there is Kate Bingham My heart How I have grown to love Sam Gardiner Sorrow’s Other Madness
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		REVIEWS & FEATURES
		When you want to tie a donkey to someone asleep, or go fish in the Mississippi before it’s too late Antony Dunn’s acute observations of three new collections The transient impress of foot and hand; and poetry as spontaneous combustion stolen from the gods Bernard O’Donoghue’s admiration for two powerful new collections A strong sense of how odd being human is David Constantine reads poems by WN Herbert and Robin Robertson that respond to that strangeness Poetry from New York, Sheffield Hallam University and a private poetry festival Roddy Lumsden peruses three interesting new anthologies Sussing out one poet’s tricks, difficulty hearing another, and diagnosing a third’s caffeine buzz Kathryn Maris’s take on three celebrated writers Breaking out of prison with poetry EM Test explores new translations of two books by Cesar Vallejo A poet/translator's black mirror Laurence Lieberman on Stephen Berg's 'inventions' relating to Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Baudelaire
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		COURSES: Distance & Internet; Degree/Diploma; Residential; Outside London; In London RESOURCES: Organizations; Libraries & Archives; Websites WRITING GROUPS: Outside London; In London EVENTS, FESTIVALS & VENUES: Outside London; In London POETRY DIARY
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