Amy Key

‘She is luscious / and plump like marshmallow; part edible baby, / part nosy neighbour.’

John Kinsella

‘Tryptamine skies and the forehand backhand falter / in earth’s revolutions’

Dorothea Lasky

‘In this life // There is always time // To make a comeback’

Tim Lilburn

‘The mountain rises and sleeps backward / into a cloud-captured sun’

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Nathaniel Mackey

Andrew McMillan

‘I hadn’t / realised it possible / that I might grow into kinder / ownership of my own looks’

Momtaza Mehri

‘like pasolini’s dream of an african oresteia let us be ridiculous’

Momtaza Mehri

‘salmaan the second son & his mama’s seventh seal by way of underwater & underemployment’

Chelsey Minnis

‘It’s dangerous like a very powerful doorbell. / Or a portrait covered with a blanket.’

Chelsey Minnis

‘I’m going to smash the geraniums. / Do you mind, darling?’

Sharmistha Mohanty

‘even more it was a wish for boundless spaces, a wish for the inexpressibly wide and broad, for the unharnessing of human life’ – New poetry by Sharmistha Mohanty.

Eugene Ostashevsky

‘Making sense of a feeling is like building a boat from water.’

Lev Ozerov

‘A piece of boxwood, gripped in a vise, / waits on the workbench for his knife.’ Poetry by Lev Ozerov, translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk, and introduced by Robert Chandler.