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Picnic
Emily Berry
‘Watching the sea is like watching something in pieces continually striving to be whole / Imagine trying to pick up a piece of the sea and show it to a person / I tried to do that.’
Portrayal: A Double Portrait
Edward Doegar
‘You can’t control your face / The Empire has over-reached / Expressions // Have become flags’
Postscript
John Burnside
'the trees / are slender in the way that things / are almost, though not quite / absent'
Power and Privilege
Ken Babstock
‘We do it all day every day until we can’t see. / We do it with a belt between our teeth.’
Rain at Three
Tishani Doshi
‘Rain at three splits the bed in half, / cracks at windows like horsemen blistering / through a century of hibernation.’
Reception and Openings
Rae Armantrout
‘Because children suspect that objects conceal their powers and intentions, animators make an alarm clock run, screaming, in circles.’
Reflections on shame in sacred spaces
Kate Duckney
‘At sunset the light is both nasty and nice / in my robe.’
Relinquish
Kazim Ali
‘I haven’t learned very much in my life, I’ve just become a more / Choreographed disaster’
