Raven Leilani

‘I sent messages in nine point font / arcing through the Internet, asking him / do you believe in our heavenly Father?’

Issue 120

Ben Lerner

‘My role in the slaughter doesn’t disqualify the beauty I find in all / forms of sheltered flame.’

Megan Levad

‘Out of the Zeitgeist / and onto the party barge.’

Tim Lilburn

‘The mountain rises and sleeps backward / into a cloud-captured sun’

Zeyar Lynn

‘Do I have the heart to drink a glass of cool Coke?’

Zeyar Lynn

‘Our errors evolved into nature.’ Translated from the Burmese by ko ko thett.

Issue 143

Nathaniel Mackey

Derek Mahon

‘a voice, not quite a voice, in the sea distance / listening to its own thin cetaceous whistle’

Amit Majmudar

‘Never laid a snare for nothin. / Never caught a bullfrog. Broke / my slingshot wishbone, wishin. / Never had a smoke.’ New poetry from Amit Majmudar.

Soledad Marambio

‘They told her a thrush came into the house / and fell asleep by the TV.’

Lorraine Mariner

‘On one of those mornings / when I felt like resigning / from my life.’

Lorraine Mariner

‘The psychiatrist’s wife / has a dress the colour / of that bottle of claret / you shouldn’t have drunk / last night.’

Issue 131

Kathryn Maris

‘this dream that might have been pleasant for an / 8-year-old could instead emerge as a nightmare for a woman / on the brink of menopause’

Issue 141

Daphne Marlatt

‘it’s rain / forest wet the same but different air’