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Two Poems

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

‘A space between / the strata’d self, the wink of skin’

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Two Poems

Valzhyna Mort

‘As a species I’m closest / to a screw / that loosens regularly.’

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Three Poems

Elaine Kahn

‘I want to be more / than anything I want’

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Interview

Raymond Antrobus

An interview with the 2019 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year.

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Top Reads 2019 | Poetry

Granta’s ten most popular poetry posts of 2019.

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The Taste of the Feeling

Peter Mishler

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

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Tasked with Designing the Vienna House

Ken Babstock

‘Sky of bright rust and / soapy aquamarine.’

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Fanciphobia

Colin Herd

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

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Windrush Reflections

Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo

‘It is not informational, it is / not a blameshift, it is not / all-lives-matter top down and sideways blank.’

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Three Poems

Vi Khi Nao

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

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Neoterics and the Field
(out of Callimachus)

John Kinsella

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

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Four Poems

Crispin Best

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

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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’

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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.

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