Crispin Best

‘i feel good like a person / holding flowers on a train / feels dumb’

Bill Manhire

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

Geoffrey Nutter

Four poems by Geoffrey Nutter.

Mark Waldron

‘Just look at those nasty trees flaunt / their leaves, each one a tra-la-la.’

Michael Earl Craig

‘Running through the ages from this casual rabbit.’

Issue 2

Peter Robinson

‘I swelter in the dusk / and chase the flies, abstractedly, / until I half forget them.’

Ian Seed

‘We were afraid to touch it – it looked cold enough / to burn us.’

Katie Farris

‘Ungraceful, the heart boinks: / drugged, suspended, spiderwebbed – ’

Four poems by Katie Farris.

Nuar Alsadir

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

Issue 134

Eliza Griswold

Mira Mattar

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

Sandra Simonds

‘let us / build the openwork fabric of our garden / on the fear in the body’

Issue 100

Jamie McKendrick

‘No flood as parched as this’

Peter Gizzi

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