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A Journal of Poetry and Prose

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  • An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence by Dana Grigorcea (trans. Alta L. Price)
  • Bitten Hair by Tessa Berring
  • Black Sun by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
  • Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
  • Dear Big Gods by Mona Arshi
  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
  • Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
  • Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
  • Float by Anne Carson
  • Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo
  • Greetings from Angelus by Gershom Scholem
  • Guillotine by Eduardo C. Corral
  • I Know Your Kind by William Brewer
  • If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar
  • Jackself by Jacob Polley
  • Kingdomland by Rachael Allen
  • Known by Salt by Tina Mozelle Braziel
  • Lyric In Its Times by John Wilkinson
  • Moder Dy by Roseanne Watt
  • Negroland by Margo Jefferson
  • On Balance by Sinéad Morrissey
  • Our Earliest Tattoos by Peter Twal
  • Rise Up, Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes by Diane Atkinson
  • Rockadoon Shore by Rory Gleeson
  • Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
  • Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry
  • The Built Moment by Lavinia Greenlaw
  • The Caught Habits of Language: An Entertainment for W. S. Graham for Him Having Reached One Hundred edited by Rachael Boast, Andy Ching and Nathan Hamilton
  • The Coming-Down Time by Robert Selby
  • The Long Take by Robin Robertson
  • The Sellout by Paul Beatty
  • The Spirit Papers by Elizabeth Metzger
  • The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx by Tara Bergin
  • Venus as a Bear by Vahni Capildeo
  • Void Studies by Rachael Boast
  • When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List Of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
  • Winter by Ali Smith
  • Aaron Kent
  • Acknowledgements & Thanks – Issue 7
  • Acknowledgements & Thanks – Issue 8
  • Acknowledgements & Thanks: Issue 5
  • Acknowledgements & Thanks: Issue 6
  • Acknowledgements & Thanks: Issue Four
  • Acknowledgements & Thanks: Issue Three
  • Acknowledgements & Thanks: Issue Two
  • Acknowledgements and Thanks: Issue One
  • Adam Crothers
  • Adrianna Smith
  • Agnes Hanying Ong
  • Agnes Hanying Ong
  • Alaina Ferris
  • Alan Gilbert
  • Alex Amey
  • Alex MacDonald
  • Ali Lewis
  • Amy Acre
  • Amy Key & Rebecca Perry
  • Andrew McMillan
  • Andrew Wells
  • Ann-Kathrin Müller & Magdalena Treutwein
  • Ann-Kathrin Müller & Magdalena Treutwein
  • Anna Crowe
  • Anna Moore
  • Anne-Laure Coxam
  • Annie Freud
  • Annie Freud
  • Aoife Lyall
  • Aysar Ghassan
  • Beauty/Beauty by Rebecca Perry
  • Beth Ford
  • Beth McDonough
  • Blake Morrison
  • Brandon Kreitler
  • Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón
  • CAConrad
  • Callie Gardner
  • Calum Rodger
  • Carla Funk
  • Catherine Eunson
  • Catherine Pond
  • Chad Campbell
  • Charlotte Hammond
  • Christie Williamson
  • Christie Williamson
  • Christine De Luca
  • Christine De Luca
  • Ciaran Berry
  • Claudia Daventry
  • Clive James
  • Corrado Govoni
  • Dalena Storm
  • Dan Gutstein
  • Daniel Felsenthal
  • David Harsent
  • David Harsent
  • Dawn Wood
  • Dean Atta
  • Devon Walker-Figueroa
  • Dianty Ningrum
  • Dominic Hale
  • Dominic Leonard
  • Don Paterson
  • Donato Mancini
  • Dorothea Lasky
  • Douglas Dunn
  • Du Fu (杜甫)
  • Edmund Berrigan
  • Elizabeth Burns
  • Elizabeth Droppers
  • Ella Frears
  • Eloise Hendy
  • Eric Langley
  • Fady Joudah
  • Fiona Moore
  • Gabriella Attems
  • Garry Mackenzie
  • Garry MacKenzie
  • George Abraham
  • George Kovalenko
  • George Szirtes
  • George Szirtes
  • Ghayath Almadhoun
  • Giorgio Papitto
  • Gnaomi Siemens
  • Hanna Nielson
  • Hannah Lowe
  • Hannah Regel
  • Hannah Star Rogers
  • Hans Lucht
  • Harrison Pyros
  • Harry Giles
  • Harry Giles
  • Harry Man
  • Hazem Fahmy
  • Heather H. Yeung (楊希蒂)
  • Helen Mort
  • Helena Nelson
  • Herberto Hélder
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  • I Love the Alien Foliage: On How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil
  • Iain Britton
  • Indigo Baloch
  • Introduction to Issue 5’s Arab Heritage Poetry Special Feature
  • Introduction to Issue 8’s English as an Additional Language Poetry Special Feature
  • Ioannis Kalkounos
  • Issue 4, Summer 2018
  • Issue 5, Arab Heritage Poetry Special Feature
  • Issue 5, Winter 2018
  • Issue 6, Summer 2019
  • Issue 7, Winter 2020
  • Issue 8, English as an Additional Language Poetry Special Feature
  • Issue 8, Summer 2020
  • Issue One, Autumn 2016
  • Issue Three, Winter 2017
  • Issue Two, Spring 2017
  • Iulia David
  • J. C. Scharl
  • Jake Darin
  • Jake Rosati
  • James Giddings
  • Jane Routh
  • Janna Coleman
  • Jay G. Ying
  • Jaydn DeWald
  • Jennie Hunter
  • Jennifer Franklin
  • Jennifer Wong
  • Jess Rizkallah
  • Jessica Abughattas
  • JinJin Xu
  • Jo Young
  • Joe Carrick-Varty
  • John Glenday
  • Joseph Fasano
  • Josh Bettinger
  • Judy Brown
  • Juliana Chang
  • Julie Irigaray
  • K.M. English
  • Karen McCarthy Woolf
  • Karen Solie
  • Katharine Towers
  • Kathleen Jamie
  • Katrin Ottarsdóttir
  • Katrine Øgaard Jensen
  • Ken Babstock
  • Kevin Cahill
  • Kevin MacNeil
  • Kimi Traube
  • Kingsley O’Bedlam
  • Kostya Tsolakis
  • Krystelle Bamford
  • Kyle Dargan
  • L Kiew
  • L Kiew
  • Laura Scott
  • Lauren Delapenha
  • Lauren Diethelm
  • leena aboutaleb
  • Lila Rabinovich
  • Lily Blacksell
  • Liminal Landscapes: On Bulbul Calling by Pratyusha and Country Music by Will Burns
  • Lindsay Macgregor
  • Livia Franchini
  • Liz Snell
  • Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe
  • Lorem Ipsum
  • Lorraine Mariner
  • Luke Kennard
  • Lynn Melnick
  • Madeleine Barnes
  • Mai Der Vang
  • Marco Yan
  • Marjorie Lotfi Gill
  • Mark Russell
  • Martha Sprackland
  • Marwa Helal
  • Mary Anne Clark
  • Mary G. Wilson
  • Mary Jean Chan
  • Matt Rader
  • Matt Salyer
  • Matthew Caley
  • Matthew Gigg
  • Matthew Manera
  • Maurice Riordan
  • Maya C. Popa
  • Melcion Mateu
  • Melissa Lee-Houghton
  • Mhairi Owens
  • Michael Grieve
  • Mikey Swanberg
  • Mimi Khalvati
  • Miruna Fulgeanu
  • Mona Arshi
  • Moniza Alvi
  • Nadine Aisha Jassat
  • Naima Rashid
  • Nasser Hussain
  • Nathan Spoon
  • Nathaniel Rosenthalis
  • Nene Giorgadze
  • Niall Campbell
  • Nick Flynn
  • Nick Nack Melville
  • Nora Chassler
  • Omar Sakr
  • Online Features Archive
  • Owain Nicholson
  • Patricia Smith
  • Paul Muldoon
  • Paul Stephenson
  • Paul Stephenson
  • Peter Daniels
  • Pey Oh
  • Philip Metres
  • Poems
  • Polly Atkin
  • Polly Clark
  • Previous Issues
  • Rab Wilson
  • Rab Wilson
  • Rachael Boast
  • Rachel Piercey
  • Rachel Rankine
  • Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Raquel Dorman
  • Rebecca Birrell
  • Rebecca Gould
  • Rebecca Perry
  • Rebecca Tamás
  • Rebecca Watts
  • Reviews
  • Richard O’Brien & Jack Nicholls
  • Richard Price
  • Rickey Laurentiis
  • Ricky Monahan Brown
  • Robert Crawford
  • Robert Crawford
  • Rowan Mitton
  • Rowan Ricardo Phillips
  • Rowena Knight
  • Ruth Padel
  • Ruth Padel
  • Ryan Barrett
  • Sam Riviere
  • Sam Riviere
  • Samuel Tongue
  • Sarah Brownsberger
  • Sarah Fletcher
  • Sarah Lubala
  • Sarah Shapiro
  • Seán Hewitt
  • Şebnem Susam-Saraeva
  • Shane McCrae
  • Sinéad Morrissey
  • Sophie Robinson
  • Speak Against the Current: Lantern by Seán Hewitt & The Unquiet by L. Kiew
  • StAnza 2016
  • Stephen Scott Whitaker
  • Susannah Dickey
  • Terese Svoboda
  • Tess Jolly
  • Tess Walsh
  • Tessa Berring & Kathrine Sowerby
  • The Editors
  • The Editors
  • The Editors – Issue 6
  • The Editors, Issue 5
  • The Editors, Issue Four
  • The Editors: Issue Three
  • The Editors: Issue Two
  • The Team: Issue One, Autumn 2016
  • Theresa Muñoz
  • Thomas Clark
  • Timothy Berrigan
  • Timothy Donnelly
  • Tom Druker
  • Tom Weir
  • Vahni Capildeo
  • W. Brandon Bell
  • Wayne Holloway-Smith
  • Will Harris
  • Yvette Siegert
  • Zeina Hashem Beck
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Reviews

Beauty/Beauty by Rebecca Perry–Reviwed by Alexa Winik

 

Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón–Reviewed by Adrianna Smith

 

Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe–Reviewed by Tom Minogue


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