Anne Michaels

‘I told you how the bison woke / the earth / I knew you were listening’

Wayne Miller

‘After the plane went down, / the cars sat for weeks in long-term parking. / Then, one by one, they began to disappear / from among the cars of the living.’

Chelsey Minnis

‘It’s dangerous like a very powerful doorbell. / Or a portrait covered with a blanket.’

Chelsey Minnis

‘I’m going to smash the geraniums. / Do you mind, darling?’

Peter Mishler

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

Ange Mlinko

‘I rediscovered the efficacy of meter (or the ‘contrast between fixity and flux’) when I was stuck in a shark tunnel with my kids and was afraid I was coming down with a panic attack.’

Issue 125

Ange Mlinko

‘I think of this when raising my eyes / to a filigreed cross in a sanctuary‘’

Issue 133

Ange Mlinko

‘the victim of a mythological punishment.’

Sharmistha Mohanty

‘And the evening wind from over the sea makes that threadbare self billow like a tattered sail, all that resisted it now become the air on which it rises.’

Sharmistha Mohanty

‘even more it was a wish for boundless spaces, a wish for the inexpressibly wide and broad, for the unharnessing of human life’ – New poetry by Sharmistha Mohanty.

Helen Mort

‘Stall here and let the world / go past, the way / the world well might / on heather-coloured days like this,’

Issue 133

Andrew Motion

‘The hunters have all failed, / the three hunters and their forlorn dogs / now arriving home from the mountain / which thunders above their village’

Issue 128

Andrew Motion

‘What am I doing here more than looking – / which I would stop / only to help things through their vanishing’

Issue 112

Daniyal Mueenuddin