Adam Fitzgerald

‘Would you like to come with me for some / old-fashioned inconclusive combat?’

Issue 130

Anjum Hasan

‘motorcyclists like to howl / and dogs drop bulging bags of garbage / from their mouths when they see other dogs / they want to mount’

Paul Farley

‘I’m holding out. / I’m blue in the face.’

Issue 131

Peter Gizzi

‘was it wind or a creature / am I here or is it over’

Angélica Freitas

‘amelia, the real woman, / ran away with the bearded lady’

Amy Gerstler

‘I must remember god is not my private / secretary.’

Issue 100

Michael Hofmann

‘They were fascinated / by what they seemed to have contained.’

Sadaf Halai

‘Of the 36 views of Fuji, this one is the strangest: / the great wave off Kanagawa, frozen and tempestuous, / both sound and silence.’

Issue 2

Richard Godden

‘She is, sharp as / an aftertaste of iron; and yet, at times, / dull.’

Lavinia Greenlaw

‘Do they dance for those creatures / whose unmade selves / come unbuttoning out of the dark?’

Issue 106

Fanny Howe

‘Every cupboard is old, / every glass and cup / wiped clean.’

Seamus Heaney

‘I called his name, although I knew / The answer this time would be silence / That kept me standing listening while it grew.’

Issue 112

Hasina Gul

Issue 112

Yasmeen Hameed

‘Tell me, what is this cry of pain in the air?’