Stephen Sexton

‘My celebrity accumulated like a kidney stone: / children, pets, even some corvids recognised me’

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

‘the bell / was ringing from the chapel, they were there / expecting her.’

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Leontia Flynn

‘The opposite of simply sitting about / in your head, like an egg in eggshell.’

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Tara Bergin

‘So the young girls, / cast as naughty young girls from the Acropolis, / left – / just with some things missing.’

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Stephen Sexton

‘Outside deer are nowhere to be seen and inside / the radio spectrum fills up with sorrowful little packets of data.’

Rae Armantrout

‘Your dad told me to tell you / how good you look to him right now.’ Rae Armantrout revisits Shakespeare’s sonnet 3.

Sandra Simonds

‘Police brutality makes me want to starve / myself to death and loneliness / is a drag’

Daniel Poppick

‘Over an exit, and deeply dreaming / A guard brutally splayed’

Astrid Alben

‘High up in atmosphere, vertigo intact inside Vodka & Lime’

Solmaz Sharif

‘To step out of my door and hope to see something like a life, something passably me.’

Tyehimba Jess

‘Let me tell you how / white hands kilned me / in the moonless middle / of night.’

Rae Armantrout

‘Because children suspect that objects conceal their powers and intentions, animators make an alarm clock run, screaming, in circles.’

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Jaan Kaplinski

‘I don’t remember whether I believed that I could just / abandon one life to begin another’

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Eliza Griswold