Poems
Phillis Levin
That Morning
Sarah Hannah
Westwood Lodge, 1980–1990 • First Singing Lesson Ever, at Forty • Indian Pipe (Monotropa uniflora)
Colette Bryce
The Residents • A Spider • On Not Finding the Angelry
Todd Hearon
Last Look
Susan Wicks
Gods • Pistachios
Eva Salzman
Theme and Variations
Philip Gross
Designs for the Water Garden • Severn Song
Jane Duran
Boatland • Morphology
Padraig Rooney
The Valley • Rome, Night • The Sand School
Stephen Sandy
Jerome • The Field Glasses
Tony Williams
Reproductive Behaviour of the Dark • The Fence
Lydia Macpherson
Armadillos
Charles Bennett
Thaw • Pond Life
Kathryn Simmonds
The World Won’t Miss You for a While • Talking to Yourself • Shoestring Dialogues
John Goodby
The First Night • Paul Batchelor • The Butcher’s Daughter
Moniza Alvi
The Ride • King Agenor
Christina Dunhill: commended
Romance
Linda Chase: commended
Dare
Reviews & Features
New Premisses Required
WN Herbert considers the constancy of pleasure in Alan Gillis, Fiona Sampson and Lynne Wycherley
Speaking from Landscape
Katy Evans-Bush delves into contrasting Modernisms in Frances Presley and WS Merwin
The First XI
Kate Bingham gathers the best of this year’s pamphlets
A New Planet Swims into our Ken
Kathryn Maris talks to Ruth Borthwick about an event on the poetry horizon
