My oddly capable body Isabelle Thompson reviews The Department of Work and Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish by Nuala Watt (Blue Diode, 2024) Castaway Companions Helen Evans chooses poems by Mary Oliver, William Stafford and Marie Howe, plus Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Kathryn Maris and Rebecca Elson The air is full of love Bruno Cooke checks out a Lyrical Lunacy poetry open mic night in Bangkok The little Englands of my grief Hilary Menos reviews Contraflow: Lines of Englishness 1922–2022, selected by John Greening & Kevin Gardner (Renard, 2023) Flashes of brightwork Victoria Moul reviews Something, I Forget by Angela Leighton (Carcanet, 2023) Everything so insistently next to everything else Helena Nelson mind-maps Absence by Ali Lewis (Cheerio, 2024) In Conversation with Ryan Van Winkle We talk to Ryan Van Winkle, the new Artistic Director for StAnza Medieval Pattern Poems of Rabanus Maurus Sam Dolbear and Adam Green look at some 9th century examples of "pattern poetry" All the bridges are down Carl Tomlinson reviews Between A Drowning Man by Martyn Crucefix (Salt, 2023) Castaway Companions Sarah Leavesley chooses poems by Matthew Arnold, Jacques Prévert and Lorine Niedecker This ritual of witness and professionalism D.A. Prince reviews The Sessions by Jonathan Totman (Pindrop Press, 2023) The man will carry this void Rory Waterman reviews Missing Person by Nicholas Hogg (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)