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Four thrilling new worlds

Maggie Mackay looks at the four winning pamphlets of The Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition 2021

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The Control Room

by Suzannah Evans — every morning we are overjoyed / to find her plutonium heart still halving // it feels like she’s seen so much but then / haven’t we seen it all too // from our padded office chairs / the glinting

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 Desert Island War Poems

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In the Slips

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Call it Love

Chris Edgoose reviews Bioluminescent Baby by Fiona Benson (Guillemot, 2021)

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Parcels of light

Richie McCaffery looks at the poetry of Elizabeth Burns

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The Innkeeper of Kyiv

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Have you ever hated anyone enough

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March 2022

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Flag Iris

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The colour blue

by Carla Scarano D'Antonio — 1. The stark blue sky, solid in summer at the camping site in Ostia countryside. It was always blue, day / after day with sporadic transparent white clouds. We took it for granted like the rising

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Poems for Ukraine 10/03/22

Have you ever hated anyone enough by Sarah Mnatzaganian
March 2022 by Becky Cullen
Flag Iris by Karen Mooney
Streetparties by Nicholas McGaughey

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