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Turn the River
Cortney Lamar Charleston
‘Backtrack / to the bones of the matter, which are the bones themselves.’
Reflections on shame in sacred spaces
Kate Duckney
‘At sunset the light is both nasty and nice / in my robe.’
Cassiopeia (three back-to-front songs)
Diana Anphimiadi
‘Anyway, I did not die. / I lined the sky, inside-out.’ Translated from the Georgian by Jean Sprackland and Natalia Bukia-Peters.
Every Day Was Ordinary
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
‘A life is an open thing / leaking out into / the air around it.’
Zeus
Fiona Benson
‘days I talked with Zeus / I ate only ice / felt the blood trouble and burn / under my skin’
The Blue Clerk
Dionne Brand
‘Now you are sounding like me, the clerk says. I am you, the author says.’
After Ann Lauterbach
Emily Critchley
‘The piano eyes me / from its corner – / colluding with the past’
Assuming the Habits of the Day and Night
Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo
‘my every day is a being in of being / a mixity of worlds’
The Republic of Motherhood
Liz Berry
‘a cardigan / soft as a creature, smelling of birth and milk’ – New poetry from Liz Berry.