Issue 112

Hasina Gul

Troy Jollimore

‘Our conversations faltered, the celestial musicians / took a break between sets, and all the little engines / we had so painstakingly gathered and constructed / lapsed into stillness for a few brief moments.’

Seamus Heaney

‘I called his name, although I knew / The answer this time would be silence / That kept me standing listening while it grew.’

Issue 106

Fanny Howe

‘Every cupboard is old, / every glass and cup / wiped clean.’

Jack Gilbert

‘Loneliness is the mother’s milk of America. / The heart is a foreign country whose language none / of us is good at. ’

Paul Farley

‘I’m holding out. / I’m blue in the face.’

Issue 100

Michael Hofmann

‘They were fascinated / by what they seemed to have contained.’

Issue 100

Lavinia Greenlaw

‘did you breathe differently / as if equipped with an aqualung’

Issue 2

Richard Godden

‘She is, sharp as / an aftertaste of iron; and yet, at times, / dull.’