‘Swimming’ – a poem by Rupinder Kaur
Swimming Jaan to meri jaan, my life. The ghosts of language sit at the tip of my tongue and sing meri …
Two poems by Roy Marshall
Icarus’s Mother Missing from the Musee des Beaux Arts, a portrait of the slave girl, her name unimportant or forgotten, …
Two poems by Alison Brackenbury
‘Honeymoon’ from the memoirs of Helen, widow of the poet Edward Thomas They fled, by train, to a poacher Edward …
‘The Kill’ – a poem by Andrew Jordan
Photo by Daniel Burka on Unsplash The Kill In your room, holding the cartridge, you imagined flames packed like …
‘Masks’ – a translation by April Yee of Sebastián Núñez Torres
April writes: “Chilean poet and academic Sebastián Núñez Torres (b. 1984) explores the fracturing of self and society in Las arpas rotas (Bajo …
Ana Blandiana: Poet, Civic Figure, Woman
Photo: Miguel Ruiz Durán Andreea Iulia Scridon Though her name may only be familiar to relatively few readers globally, Romanian poet, …
‘Neighbours’ – a poem by Mark Russell
Neighbours Grant was exhausted. I leaned over the shrub and watched him trying to hit a five-foot high stake into the ground. …
‘Those Days’ – a poem by Gary Allen
Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash Those days There was always a simpleton as far back as I can remember …
‘Peace in East Sussex’ – a poem by Colin Falck
The below poem is taken from Colin Falck’s final poetry collection, Leni’s Triumph, published by Shoestring Press shortly before his death in December at …
‘Like walking in the rain’: César Vallejo, Carolyn Forché, and the problem of witness
César Vallejo in 1929; the cover of Carolyn Forché’s The Country Between Us (Harper & Row, 1982) Jonathan Hitchens The very …