Below are four poems from the sequence ‘Antigeorgics’ by James Brookes, which appears in his second full collection, Spoils, published this month by Offord Road Books. Spoils is being […]

  Below are five poems from Patrick Davidson Roberts’s debut collection, The Mains, recently published by Vanguard Editions. The collection is being launched at the London Review Bookshop, Bloomsbury, this […]

      Heavenly Bodies for Mark Haworth-Booth   Small mother, I want to believe that when the soul is released it is borne to the stars by a swan, though […]

Somewhere   Somewhere I once belonged. Who knows where? But like the map englobed My journey’s clear. I must find out. I must go there. For the past is space […]

Twickenham Garden   We say it still, asking each other how many poems do you know by heart? Meaning how many can you recite from memory and something more implying […]

Ahren Warner Three Poems  

Black Lagoon   ‘Even I, Lucas, have heard the legend of a man-fish.’ But what did they tell you, Lucas? Out of the murk and mystery – was I all […]

Seersucker   The seersucker suit turns down a drink. I’ve seen you drinking wine before though, someone says. Chicken and onions, talk of his Soho… receding, recession. It’s a plain […]

Kindness I Suppose   These were the days pitched from morning straight into night, the days of vodka 7s in the shower, of you bringing the first good guitar any […]

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 […]

Black Water   I spit his name out & four wolves appear. Black, eyes silvery, ears skinned & tense. They thrash their tails twice then rush toward me. A dark […]

Fresco   Those long-dead painters must have thought it was impossible to remake the world however tender the flowers and birds they left lightly suspended in tempera whose modest visible […]

Late   Not much use saying then I was busy I was asked as if to suggest there were orders I only followed useless afterwards when you find it was […]