The Day Cattle Broke Through the Fence at the Outbreak of the Ukraine War
by Graham Mort — They were belted Galloways, black with milky / cummerbunds, grazing in the field below gardens / between mole hills and thistles above the beck / that
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Collaboration and Transformation II
Clare Best on collaborating with composers and musicians, translators and book designers
Photo credit: Guildhall School of Music & Drama
What lies ahead may cause upset
Chris Edgoose reviews WE’RE ALL IN IT TOGETHER: poems for a disUNITED KINGDOM edited by Michael Stewart, Steve Ely and Kayleigh Campbell (Grist, 2022).
A single umbrella is enough to start a revolution
Matthew Stewart reviews The Storm in the Piano by Christopher James (Maytree Press, 2022),
Erasures
by Maryann Corbett — It was, he first explains, a summer job. / The sort you ordinarily forget — / work-study, during graduate school. His task / was hauling the condemned away for burning / or rending limb from limb. Not people, no, / but books
Pulled into focus through my mind’s binoculars
D.A. Prince reviews Old Friends by Hannah Lowe (Hercules Editions, 2022)
Like worms on the corruption in which they are bred
Hilary Menos reviews The Poets’ Guide to Economics by John Ramsden (Pallas Athene, 2022)
Collaboration and Transformation I
Clare Best on her experiences of collaborative artistic work
Photo by Laura Stevens
Boulder Song
by Wendy Pratt — The boulder sings like a tuning fork sings; / vibrating with the glacier’s movement. Listen. // Opposite a bus shelter, beside a bypass, / the boulder sings a Shap granite score / back to the pressure of its creation. // It is a sound
After the first phase, after the great fall
In the first of a new series of close readings, Hilary Menos unpacks the poem ‘Incredible’ by Simon Armitage
If the wallpaper could speak
D.A. Prince reviews Rock, Bird, Butterfly by Hannah Lowe (Hercules Editions, 2022)
The end of history?
Mat Riches reviews You have no normal country to return to by Tom Sastry (Nine Arches, 2022)