Picture credit: Jurgen Brocan   Ranjit Hoskote’s The Atlas of Lost Beliefs was published by Arc in April and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Summer 2020.         Letters from Ugarit   Fire saved these words cut into clay corded sounds of desert and surf gouged into flesh Father look the enemy’s…

Poussin’s ‘Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake’   Lying there. Just knotted and crushed by speckled coils. A whistling snap and bite. I could have sworn I saw him smile. But wrong, that. That was only his last try, a grabbed breath short of shining back to a table’s warmth, the glow of…