Granta | The Home of New Writing

Explore Poetry

Two Poems

Jenny George

‘This had happened once before, / when my life first split / into comfort and pain.’

From This End of Sadness

Peter Gizzi

‘I did not understand / the code that held / me to the world.’

Fanciphobia

Colin Herd

‘I wear my fear around me / I fan it out on my pillow’

Neoterics and the Field
(out of Callimachus)

John Kinsella

‘This oven this earth as dust this water we watch vanish and ancient’

Two Poems

Caroline Knox

‘Make way, please, for the / cold blob; not blog, it’s / blob.’

Two Poems

Jennifer L. Knox

‘The Tanners are like mushrooms: born with every molecule / they’ll ever need.’

The Politics of Feeling

Nick Laird

‘Everything already is fraying at the edges if not completely gone.’

The Taste of the Feeling

Peter Mishler

‘Shy yet contemptible object / in an unleaking vial collected.’

Three Poems

Vi Khi Nao

‘To unfriend the refrain of sorrow / One must break the ribcage of a city’

Three Poems

Chus Pato

‘you alone sit down at that table / facing the houses you tried to inhabit’
Translated from the Galician by Erín Moure.

Two Poems

Jana Prikryl

‘his balance / between person and / abstraction’s so stirring I want no other token for anything can happen’

In Ballard

Alissa Quart

‘We name stuff and hope / that’s proof. How / reporting works.’

we are seen by the world / what must be seen

Nisha Ramayya

‘oh dirty feet blood-clotter / oh grease monkey clod-hopper / oh cloud-devourer spit’

Two Poems

Rebecca Tamás

‘that huge cobalt industrial complex eye / how can anything be that big’