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Though I Have Never Been to Ostia, I Have Seen the Place Where Our Dreams Died
Momtaza Mehri
‘like pasolini’s dream of an african oresteia let us be ridiculous’
Biscotti Boys / On Men Who Wear Living as Loosely as Their Suits
Momtaza Mehri
‘salmaan the second son & his mama’s seventh seal by way of underwater & underemployment’
The Feeling Sonnets
Eugene Ostashevsky
‘Making sense of a feeling is like building a boat from water.’
Two Poems
Andrew McMillan
‘I hadn’t / realised it possible / that I might grow into kinder / ownership of my own looks’
Darling
Chelsey Minnis
‘It’s dangerous like a very powerful doorbell. / Or a portrait covered with a blanket.’
Two Poems
Amy Key
‘She is luscious / and plump like marshmallow; part edible baby, / part nosy neighbour.’
Extinction
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.
There Is No Light of the World But the World
Tim Lilburn
‘The mountain rises and sleeps backward / into a cloud-captured sun’