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Two Poems

Kim Min Jeong

‘You think I like being called Cherry / because your cat’s named Cherry?’

Tongues of Fire

Seán Hewitt

‘Waking, close to morning but still
a shuttered, metal dark in the room’

Two poems by Seán Hewitt from Tongues of Fire, shortlisted for the 2020 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.

Two Poems

Aaron Fagan

‘it / Was chaos in the way nature is a chaos.’

At the Peckhamplex

Will Harris

‘the snow reflecting off / your torch was the / colour of your thoughts’

Secretions

Colin Herd

‘No I’m not tired I said. / No I’m not thirsty I said. / I’m sassy.’

Scheherazade Conjoining (31)

Jay Gao

‘Thank any God, our emergency is celestially authorised’

New poetry by Jay Gao.

Fanciphobia

Colin Herd

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

From This End of Sadness

Peter Gizzi

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

Two Poems

Jenny George

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

Two Poems

Miriam Bird Greenberg

‘Why wasn’t I better made / to refute assimilation’s maze’

Holy Man

Will Harris

‘I must / have been the only one to catch his eye, to hold it.’

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.

Song for Goliath

Kim Fu

‘I see them as a needlepoint sampler, / flowing script that reads: everyone suffers.’