Kaddy Benyon

‘Sometimes I am so afraid my envy / will hack at your figs, strawberries, / or full-bellied beans, I dig my fists / into my pockets and nip myself.’

Issue 135

Tara Bergin

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

Emily Berry

‘I am lying in the foetal position on a beach in the east of England.’

Liz Berry

‘a cardigan / soft as a creature, smelling of birth and milk’ – New poetry from Liz Berry.

Emily Berry

‘And I'm / cranking out oodles of love the way an old spaghetti machine / cranks out spaghetti.’

Emily Berry

‘Watching the sea is like watching something in pieces continually striving to be whole / Imagine trying to pick up a piece of the sea and show it to a person / I tried to do that.’

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

‘You divide space you think time occupies, not motion itself.’

Crispin Best

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

Issue 118

Sophie Cabot Black

‘I can only do what is here. But you / Have an entire congregation of choice’

Issue 124

Rachael Boast

Issue 118

Paula Bohince

‘At thirty, I fled from my life / in a hailstorm and firestorm’

Paula Bohince

‘What sparrows come, / come briefly, briefly displacing / the nothingness.’

Sean Borodale

‘To be honest, this is dark stuff; mud, tang / of bitter battery-tasting honey. The woods are in it.’

Andrea Brady

‘When we’re close to weaning / ourselves history gives us its reasons / to return’