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Postscript
John Burnside
'the trees / are slender in the way that things / are almost, though not quite / absent'
A Description of the Architectural Impact of My Home, Age 7
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
‘my apartment is neither over / nor under the sidewalk, / but both at once’
Meeting the psychiatrist’s wife
Lorraine Mariner
‘The psychiatrist’s wife / has a dress the colour / of that bottle of claret / you shouldn’t have drunk / last night.’
The Burning of the Rocks
John Kinsella
‘What locked-away / state of unawareness, other life form, / brings desire to combust / out of rock exposed to flame’
Dilation
Ben Lerner
‘My role in the slaughter doesn’t disqualify the beauty I find in all / forms of sheltered flame.’
The Lady and the Skull
Angela Carter
‘I believed I had defined the problem. / With which the picked skull had presented me.’
The Self-Illuminated
Don Paterson
Don Paterson reads his poem, ‘The Self-Illuminated’ in memoriam Peter Porter, from Granta 119: Britain.
Two Poems
Niall Campbell
‘And so, last night, so cold, I listened to / the floorboards warp in the unwelcome heat.’
