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I’ll Know I’ve Made It When Going to a LongHorn Steakhouse on a Sunday Evening in the Dead of Winter Doesn’t Depress the Hell Out of Me

by Christine Naprava — There’s tremendous hurt / in knowing / that in this booth / I will never be complete.

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Glass through heat

Jane Routh reviews Panic Response by John McCullough (Penned in the Margins, 2022)

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Picture of Anne she has long blond hair and is smiling, there is a blurred painting in the background

What are the islands to me

Castaway poet Anne Rouse chooses poems about beauty, truth and hope, and promises not to brood too much on the island

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Folio

by Sharon Black — Hard to tell if these are my words / on wood pulp pressed to paper / or the tree’s own testimony. // Take this fallen leaf. Our veins are  / indistinguishable. They snake and crisscross / under

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three book covers in a fan shape, one has blue and grey vertical stripes, one has a pattern of hexagonal cells a bit like a hive with a black and white bee on it, one is green with a painting of a mother and daughter

Three pamphlets: Gillingham, Payne and Rouf

Rachael Matthews reviews The Human Body is a Hive by Erica Gillingham, Richie McCaffery reviews The Wax Argument by Steven Payne, and Bruno Cooke reviews House Work by Khadija Rouf

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One kid looking on in wonder

Matthew Stewart explores Ben Wilkinson’s poetic development and looks at his new collection, Same Difference (Seren, 2022)

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What the owl said to me

by Annie Fisher — I blink, therefore I am. / The moon and stars despise your crude chronology. / The skylark’s ecstasy is the sparrowhawk’s breakfast. // If you're scared of the dark, don't sleep in the forest.

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A dark shape from the sun

Rob A. Mackenzie reviews Dead Souls by Sam Riviere (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021)

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Lorna with short gray hair, she is wearing glasses.

Ups and Downs

In Conversation: Lorna Dowell talks about her first teachers at school, setting up Poetic Licence, and how creative expression is key to general well-being and mental health

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Mosses and dunlins, lichens and curlew, light and water

Carl Tomlinson reviews what is near by Kay Syrad (Cinnamon Press, 2021)

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About the Building

by Paul Stephenson — The entry says it’s homely in style, / double-fronted and two-storied / with gable dormer windows in the roof. / It refers to brick quoins and brick surrounds, / two large chimneys, one either side

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The hail clanjamfrie’s singin

Regina Weinert writes in memory of William Bonar (1953-2021)

Photo by Kim Ayres

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