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Blood comedy
K Patrick
‘Stopping has become a mutual desire. The things we want to stop. Mostly sounds of other people.’
A poem by K Patrick.
Two poems
Madeleine Stack
‘I won her with my grief first / a mess of steaming entrails, enticing / with its gloss.’
Two poems by Madeleine Stack.
Four Poems
Phoebe Power
‘They queue up to pass, lap / like waves beside her, to receive the darshan / from her one, black eye.’
Poetry by Phoebe Power.
Great North Wood
Jonathan Skinner
‘the woods are vocal / with no single refrain’
Poetry by Jonathan Skinner.
[harbour doubts]
Bebe Ashley
‘I don’t want to lie to you but I don’t want to tell you the truth either.’
Poetry by Bebe Ashley.
Strange Beach
Oluwaseun Olayiwola
‘Worth. It circles around you – / the increasing gap between the surface’
A poem by Oluwaseun Olayiwola.
More Night
Oluwaseun Olayiwola
‘Immeasurable beauty / is immeasurable precisely / until it’s gone –’
A poem by Oluwaseun Olayiwola.
Two Poems
Mary Jean Chan
‘Can I be myself now? I ask / my parents in a dream.’
Two poems from Mary Jean Chan’s collection Bright Fear.
The Pink Plastic Glove
Dolors Miquel
‘A pink plastic glove arrives, I say hello, pink plastic glove, you’ve arrived.’
Poetry by Dolors Miquel, translated by Peter Bush.
