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Four Poems

Crispin Best

‘i feel good like a person / holding flowers on a train / feels dumb’

Four Poems

Michael Earl Craig

‘Running through the ages from this casual rabbit.’

Fourth Person Singular

Nuar Alsadir

‘The wet in the air is like signal anxiety: life is about to / change.’

Genealogy

Kayo Chingonyi

A new poem by Kayo Chingonyi from the forthcoming collection A Blood Condition.

Hades Baedeker

Ken Chen

‘You may need to gaze at death indirectly, through a mirror crafted into a shield.’

Poetry by Ken Chen.

Hang It Up

Anne Carson

‘hang up your blood cell phone mr white slaver’

Home

Emily Critchley

‘to understand life / how to possibly / live in it / break it’

How Prayer Works

Kaveh Akbar

‘My brother and I hurried through sloppy postures of praise, quiet as the light pooling around us.’

A new poem by Kaveh Akbar.

I, Minotaur

Natalie Diaz

‘There is no such thing as time or June, / only what you’re born into’

A new poem by Natalie Diaz.

Inside the house

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

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

Interview

Raymond Antrobus

An interview with the 2019 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year.

Is Fraid I Fraid Calendars

Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo

‘Haven’t you noticed people / are different since then?’

Judges

Natalie Eilbert

‘I was thick dough when you ran us away. I never / knew you.’