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Two Poems

Fran Lock

‘eczematic lichens terraform his / face. elite spaces swallow you.’

Up Late

Nick Laird

An elegy by Nick Laird for his father, Alastair Laird, who died this year of Covid-19.

Census

Gboyega Odubanjo

‘should one count names like goats?’

A poem by Gboyega Odubanjo.

Four Poems

Geoffrey Nutter

Four poems by Geoffrey Nutter.

from Affiliation

Mira Mattar

‘on our knees in bathrooms internationally / dependent on a disguise of sovereignty’

Four Poems

Sylvia Legris

‘Carboniferous cockroach. / Gregarious cockroach.’

Best Book of 1891: The Birds of Manitoba

Sylvia Legris

‘During the pandemic, birds (along with many insects and wild plants) have landed in my life and poems again.’

Third Eclogue of the Vegetable Garden

John Kinsella

‘What you don’t know set / against all you want to know’

Four Poems

Bill Manhire

‘There is only one of me, she says, / but we all know there are two.’

Fossil Dinner

Daisy Lafarge

‘The poor dish looks just like me.’

Five Poems

Sawako Nakayasu

‘Although bara is homonymous with rose, this is not a rose-rose incident.’

Communion

Rachel Long

‘Behold the miracle of afro hair.’

Three Poems

Shane McCrae

‘I wanted to and then / Remembered why I want to never’

Three Poems

Vivek Narayanan

‘half-sunk / into ground for all those years / of negative subsisten­ce’