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Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of two books of poetry: Heaven, which was longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award, and The Ground. He is the winner of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2013 Pen/Osterweil Prize for Poetry.

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Poetry | Issue 125 padlock
Poetry | Issue 125 padlock

Pax Americana

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

‘It looks like life, or its oasis.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 125
Essays & Memoir | Issue 125

German Quasi-Story of Ulrika Thöus

Salvador Espriu

‘For hidden though they may be – and it is incontrovertible that they are – sooner or later the testicles will have to appear.’

In Conversation | Issue 125
In Conversation | Issue 125

Rowan Ricardo Phillips | Interview

Rowan Ricardo Phillips & Ted Hodgkinson

‘Poetry’s strongest response, on the other hand, is determined, open-ended world-making, which is the work of empathy.’

Poetry | Issue 125
Poetry | Issue 125

Abingdon Square Park

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

‘I once had had a thought / About a thought I once had had.’

Poetry | Issue 125
Poetry | Issue 125

Bird of Fire

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

‘No more, no longer the sweet difference / Between real and dream I knew.’

Poetry | Issue 125
Poetry | Issue 125

Two Poems

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

‘It was a cruelty I first tried to blame on nature, / Then on growing up, on falling off, on it being / Just an old myth.’

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