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Issue 139

A Pinch of Salt

Andrea Brady

‘When we’re close to weaning / ourselves history gives us its reasons / to return’

Issue 141

A Sharing Economy

Karen Solie

‘The Paying Guest rises in the middle of the night / to turn off the radio where no radio exists’

Issue 140

a style

Dara Wier

‘a style says conviction in indifference / conviction in style’

Issue 140

After Ann Lauterbach

Emily Critchley

‘The piano eyes me / from its corner – / colluding with the past’

Issue 140

Assuming the Habits of the Day and Night

Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo

‘my every day is a being in of being / a mixity of worlds’

Issue 138

Calorific

John Kinsella

‘They are superbly and viscerally unreal / and I feel their living drive’

Issue 140

crown

Danez Smith

‘the boy claps me between / his hands & i break apart like glitter’

Issue 141

Essay

Gary Barwin

‘the heart is an ocean-sized drum / a rat-sized jellyfish’

Issue 138

Fourth Person Singular

Nuar Alsadir

‘The wet in the air is like signal anxiety: life is about to / change.’

Issue 141

Golgotha

Benoit Jutras

‘Our nation is a spell of nerves and gas. We say yes to monsters, to elegies etched in our palms.’ Translated by Daniel Canty.

Issue 138

Hymen Elegy

Safiya Sinclair

‘Dammed my wet scream around those verbs / for a violence.’

Issue 140

Judges

Natalie Eilbert

‘I was thick dough when you ran us away. I never / knew you.’

Issue 138

Mars is a Stupid Planet

Matthew Rohrer

‘Even astronauts describe / our air as thick enough to slice / and spread on toast for breakfast.’

Issue 133

Maureen N. McLane in Conversation

Maureen N. McLane & Rachael Allen

Granta’s poetry editor Rachael Allen talks to Maureen N. McLane about ecology, lyric authority, and balancing poetry with criticism.

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