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Homage to Avram
by Mark McDonnell — Avram Stencl (1897-1983). // Why this writing, writing? / Why, for example, is Avram Stencl sitting in a cafe in Whitechapel - / one tea, the rental for the table - / writing poetry in Yiddish on the back of a shopping list? // Would he
Picasso, ici, je te vois, et je te nomme
Rowan Bell on the relationship between artist Picasso and poet Paul Éluard
Can’t you see the poetry in throwing a fire extinguisher through the window of the Ritz?
Karen Smith reviews Improvised Explosive Device by Arji Manuelpillai (Penned in the Margins, 2022)
This barter of enthusiasm 6
Andrew Neilson, Emma Simon and Jonathan Davidson choose favourite poems by Roddy Lumsden, Lorraine Mariner and Kit Wright
Dead Letters (xi)
by Carole Coates — Dear J, // Did we ever talk about papier mache? No? / Not in fifty years? Not in all our conversations? / Maybe not. But I did mention Mr Cuthbert surely, / once Lance-Corporal, teaching forty eight-year-olds / after the one year
What I think about when I think about English-Language Haiku
On form, spirit and resonance: an essay with three commentaries by Matthew Paul
First-class business to transact
Isabelle Thompson reviews Tabula Rasa: Poetry by Women (Linen Press, 2023)
Living between languages
Jane Routh reviews three new pamphlets from Verve Poetry Press – Nemidoonam by Nasim Rebecca Asl, Bird Cherry by Roshni Gallagher and Tapping at Glass by Tim Tim Cheng
frog
by Laura Theis — you are walking down the road / at night // out alone with / only a medium size poodle cross for protection // you’re holding a filched branch of spring / blossoms in one hand // a bag with dog poo in the other / just wondering if