Alert, electric, alive
Maggie Mackay reviews A Change in the Air by Jane Clarke (Bloodaxe, 2023)
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After the miracle
by Richard Meier — How Lazarus reacted / St. John does not record. / I wonder if, like me — / after I saw that woman / who took away the pain ...
Across the border
Isabelle Thompson reviews Come Here to This Gate by Rory Waterman (Carcanet, 2024)
Embroidering a priest
Carl Tomlinson reviews Eleanor Among The Saints by Rachel Mann (Carcanet, 2024)
One night
by Ian Seed — I was woken by a tapping on the window. / When I opened the curtain, I saw a small girl / with her palms on the glass ...
What clings to its underside
Stephen Payne reviews House on the A34 by Philip Hancock (CB Editions, 2023)
Lunar valleys in my mind
Is Taylor Swift a 'tortured poet'? Bruno Cooke listens to her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, to find out
Celestial Objects
by Maria Castro Dominguez — My son sails the Mediterranean / and sends me a photo of a sextant from the deck: / mythical and modern ...
Regal, speared, violent
Michael Grieve reviews Rapture’s Road by Seán Hewitt (Penguin Books, 2024)
Alive as the bay tree
Mat Riches reviews Variety Turns by Christopher Arksey (Broken Sleep Books, 2024)
Walking The Hill
by Pam Zinnemann-Hope — Here I am, walking up Pope’s Hill / on the tarmac track. / It’s a cold January day, / the track’s very steep ...
How wholly are we to be pressed?
Will Snelling reviews God Complex by Rachael Allen (Faber, 2024)