Caleb Klaces

‘When I was younger I drafted a memory. / I drew a rectangle on a piece of card / and called it a computer.’

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.’

Issue 130

Vinod Kumar Shukla

‘The truth is, though no one says it, / They’re all worried about their children.’

Issue 25

Raymond Carver

‘He said are you a religious man do you kneel down / in forest groves and let yourself ask for help.’

Togara Muzanenhamo

‘He will not understand her fascination / for rain, these summer months of water / that somehow keep the money coming in.’

Gillian Clarke

‘Let’s do this again, ground the planes for a while and leave the runways to the racing hare.’

Issue 127

Kimiko Hahn

‘nothing like an ancient corridor where a / woman is stripped of resistance.’

Mary Jo Bang

‘It’s a simple truth that one can occupy two / places at one time while sitting in a chair—the same way a / poseable doll can be divided from her dress.’

Issue 118

Paula Bohince

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

Wayne Miller

‘After the plane went down, / the cars sat for weeks in long-term parking. / Then, one by one, they began to disappear / from among the cars of the living.’

Issue 124

Ellen Bryant Voigt

Issue 122

John Burnside

'the trees / are slender in the way that things / are almost, though not quite / absent'

Soledad Marambio

‘They told her a thrush came into the house / and fell asleep by the TV.’

Michael Earl Craig

‘Yeah, something has slapped us. / We have definitely seen something.’