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New Hotel Krakow
Adam Zagajewski
‘Now someone else lives in that apartment, / strange people, the scent of a strange life.’
A poem by Adam Zagajewski.
Poem Conveyed
Jillian Weise
‘And now that he is body-less, / he speaks through us. / You could say. Although / I myself have not caught / a Pope.’
String Theory
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
‘On tenterhooks / you think how string constricts, how / it connects, how you followed it back / to Rawtenstall.’
The novel
Jack Underwood
‘Only they don’t know / that this silence is what they yearn for.’
A new poem by Jack Underwood.
The Starlings of Dunmore Died on the Eleventh of July
Dawn Watson
‘Black was thrown / in all directions.’
This time
Jack Underwood
‘I’m going to give them a linear sense of time, just one direction, all the way!’
A new poem by Jack Underwood.
Three Poems
Karen McCarthy Woolf
‘May it not be / that they owe their fleshiness / to the cumulative effect?’
Three Poems
Miyó Vestrini
‘It was fake that your hugs were convulsive / and your furies unpredictable.’ Translated by Cassandra Gillig and Anne Boyer.
Three Poems
Ahren Warner
‘Your promise has been extracted like the cow-horned remains of molars long-soused in a Diet Coke marinade.’
Two Poems
Lee Young-ju
‘All I do is write in my sickbed diary. It’s been a while since I’ve done anything else.’ Two poems by Lee Young-ju translated by Jae Kim.