from In Our Outrageous Masks of Dog-Skin   Prologue: St Joseph’s Seminary, Belfast—“the Wing”   What did I learn up there? What do …

 Pierre Bonnard, Self-portrait, c.1889, oil on canvas   ‘Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory’, the first major exhibition of Bonnard’s work in the UK for …

© Racheal Da Silva Burton         Packhorse   Bring on the bit and curb, the saddle, the saddlebag; broad animal, steady it goes …

        Death in the form of a child   When you came alive, I leant in, a red flower to your whisper. What …

© Jan Bella       Cannula   after Matthew Siegel   The sea is not as white as I expected. A lifeguard tapes gauze on …

© Gerry Cambridge         Inversnaid   (for Chris Powici, & i.m. Helen Lamb)   The time I visited him before this he still …

Gurnard’s Head, west of Zennor   Monday 19th November is the late poet WS Graham’s 100th birthday. Below is a poem by Matthew Francis from …

        Three Sonnets   From brown on brown, a tall fawn eating blackberries. Look how it hasn’t seen me yet – head in …

Site of Hitler’s Berghof, Obersalzberg, October 2018 © Will Stone     Below are three poems from Will Stone’s most recent collection, The Sleepwalkers (Shearsman). …

        Aptenodytes forsteri and the imperial egg   Converge as the centre is everything in the deep Antarctic winter. Begin the clockwise shuffle …