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Inheritance
by Sharon Phillips —My first break from college, on a shift / down the sorting office, I’m lobbing / letters into slots, faster and faster, / having a laugh at it, makes a change / from fretting I’m daft all term
What have you done with the blue, beautiful world?
Feature: It’s New Year — a time for making resolutions to live better. And we have a suggestion ...
Do girls not have fangs?
Bruno Cooke reviews The Book of Bad Betties (Bad Betty, 2021) edited by Vanessa Kisuule and Anja Konig
My Farm
by Rob Mackenzie — Because a true poet possesses transferable skills / and ten thousand hours of staring at blank screens / to note the detail others pass over, I have decided, / this time next year, to become
Let trigons be trigons
Mat Riches reviews The Windmill Proof by Stephen Payne (HappenStance, 2021)
Mottephobia
by Heidi Beck — Perhaps it was a Peppered Moth, / the kind they taught us / proved Darwin’s theory, / changing camouflage to survive. // Or maybe a Pink Underwing, / dull on top with that fleshy startle
We have never seen worse
Emma Simon asks poets about good rejections, bad rejections, and rejections that leave you hanging on forever
Go long
Hilary Menos reviews Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard (Penned in the Margins, 2021), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021
A Harp So Strung with Rain
by Michael Grieve — It was a long forgotten folk saying / I thought, though one that neither she nor I / had any means of bringing to the open. / Neither our luck nor expertise nor will / would serve us well