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Moving Out

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Ode to a Soup Dragon

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When the Jambler Heard a Sound

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Socks on my Ears

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We Couldn’t Help Melting The Snow

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Vessels

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The Gift

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In a New Light

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From the Log Book

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Make Abstinence Great Again

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Grief Counselling

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Hound

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How do you freeze time?

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Best Left Unanswered

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Whispers Carried By The 3AM Winds

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ten floridian commandments

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How To Be Punched

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How To Write Me, Your Personal Statement

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Penning My Thoughts

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How to be Remembered

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Baby

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A poem for a moment with you

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Moments Like These

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Grandma

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Warriors

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Defining Moments

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dead language

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Tapestry of War

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Aria for the Dead Ones

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They Came From Somewhere Else

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On Draining the St Martin Canal

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When Ursula Tyrwhitt was Gladstone’s Lover

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Maple

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The Drowning of Li Po

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Zeyde

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You’re Not Black

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Like Father

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Contingency

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Sacred and Profane

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According to Google Translate

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Today

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I Saw

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Today I am

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Aspeciation

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Bothered

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More Than Organised Dust

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On the Skagerrak Sea, with child

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Bones

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Origins

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To my baby

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Christmas Moon

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Wane

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Vanilla moon

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Written on this moon

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Maundy Thursday

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My mother’s last mid-autumn festival in Saigon, 1977

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Morning After

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Hilly City Ode

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to bee, or not to bee

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Bring

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Plot

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High-speed Bird

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Daphne

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One for Sorrow

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A private man, public spaces

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Love is a Hairy Moth

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Mrs Mendeleev

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Lady

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Pearl River

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Ormulu at the Mad House

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the passing

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Gold

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The Father Field

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First Year

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Bonnard Aria

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‘Each ant will one day be an Indra’

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Fuck / Symphonies

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Taking the Ice Line

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Another Agony in the Garden

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Word Clouds

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Deep Field

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from I Become a Delight to My Enemies

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Then I Found Harmony Brown

The posh mums are boxing in the square

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Do not indulge indigo

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Saturday Collection Duty

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I know you only invited me in for a coffee, but

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Fucking in Cornwall

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Talisman

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Namazu at the Physicist’s Funeral

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Near / Far Away

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The Inattentive Lover

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Spooky Scary Skeletons

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Ode to Pepe the Frog

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xu zhimo’s willow

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Barkskin

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Felling

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Looking at Trees

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I am the Tree

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The White Trees

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Dermatology for Trees

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Costa da Morte

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Family Tree

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Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods

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Joy Gardner, 1993

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From ‘You, Very Young in New York’

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Play

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Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris

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I Miss the Slug Ooze of That Summer You Died

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Interrogation

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The stopper

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Griglan (Heathland)

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In the Timeless University

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Bi-polar

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Home of the Codebreakers

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From Bletchley With Love

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I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire (There’ll Always Be an England)

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Hidden Messages

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Prism

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Past Name Days

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Rain Born under a Leo Sign

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Assemblage des Beautés

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Look into My Lights

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Untitled / Villanelle

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That Night

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Stages of Grief

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Void

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THINGS YOU SAID IN THE SEASONAL CYCLE WHEN WE WERE BOTH IN LOVE

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Star

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Different Roads

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Side Effects

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youth realisation through conversation

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Tranny Slag

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Vernacular

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Wyoming

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My Mother’s Return

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Splash

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Journey

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No Ears

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Fading Women

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Tickover Speed

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Gomorrah

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After they throw eggs at your house

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To Lev Gumilyov

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Boys in the Sky

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Anna

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Me Sitting at Home Having Suffered Next to Nothing

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The Journey Home

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To Kill a Spider

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To bring me luck

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Folklore from 35,000 Feet

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North of all countries

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Let’s Burn the Lot

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Appleland

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Trawlermen

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The Cake Mixture

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Landfall at daybreak

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A Traditional Cure

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In the Nude

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God in 80s Movies

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Elephantsong

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small print

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When my uncle stood at the top of the office block roof

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Nature’s diagnosis

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The Beauty of Right Now

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At the Funeral

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Talking to my car

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Of All Colours

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House with Missing Teeth

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Snakes and Ladders

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Mr Sigiriya’s Weird and Wonderful Talents

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Mrs Richards’ Year

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Recipe for a Towpath Garden

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Lobster Shift

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Recipe for a Towpath Garden

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Newly in love, distracted neuroscientists ♥

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Polar Bear

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On the conservation of mass

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I am drinking yellow flowers

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The Nature of Glass

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Collapsible deer

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from Thomas Hobbes (1588–) Works Motherhood

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During the Recent Thunder & Lightning

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Self-Portrait without Stitches

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Three Qualities

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In July

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Forgotten Holst

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(Into)national Anthem

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Sea Interlude, Blackpool 1987

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Grass Like His Mother

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A Young Man’s Song

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Don’t

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Emerging from Matter

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Take a Deep Breath

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ECHO

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A Dream of Langland

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In The Mortuary

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das Unbehagen in der Kultur (Civilisation and Its Discontents)

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arrochar alps

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the civilised man

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Blood clots in egg

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Temper

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Civilisation

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Inevitable

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Clast

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Rain Twice

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Flame Eater

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At Sanctuarul Urşilor

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Mercy Invincibility

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The Present Is Constant Elegy

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No Truce

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Sound Machine

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Spiritualist Church

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Why I Won’t Run Away to Join the Circus

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The Circus on St Kilda

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Tight Rope

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[Extracts from Love]

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Instructions to the Three-Year Old Grandchild

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ishah

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Fighting into the Night, for Light

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Goodbye in America

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Choreography

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Give Invisible

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Lone Star

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The Stain on London’s Dress

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Yellow Stickers

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#EndHungerUK

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Breadlines

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My Grandmother Tells Me About A Famine

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Concerning A Letter Written To My Local Council, Signed Your Conscience

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Universal Basic Income

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A Closed Fist

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The Miracle of Mould

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i pass the Nearly on my way to school

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Missed

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I nearly kept a secret

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Resurgam

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Had I Lived

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Haruspex

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After the Formalities

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Craquelure

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Milked

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Blitz Hits The Langham, Most Haunted Hotel in England

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Hotel Palarine

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Hotel

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Heaven on the 7th Floor

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View from a Travelodge Window

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Country House Hotel

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Inventions at the Asylum

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Danube 1994

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AngelBat

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Perishable Goods

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Till It’s Gone

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The Telling

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The Window

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Oiled Legs Have Their Own Subtext

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The Opened Field

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The Name Behind the Jersey (Mikel John Obi)

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Big Man Like You

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Elements

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A Shooting Script 1987

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A man called Harold

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Kumukanda

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From ‘Surge’

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Blodeuedd

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Stephanie

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I Dream

Swapping Places With Grandad

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Rose Garden Lane

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shades of brown

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Ode to Food that is “Too Spicy”

by Michelle Yang

Wanting, needing, having

by Jake Street

Wish List

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‘I wish to see the man in the moon’

by Cecilia Hornyak

Love in the Time of Cold

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Safety Briefing

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Maintenance

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80,000 Gallons to a Lock

by Luke Kennard

International Workers’ Day

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Dandelion

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The Adolescent Adventures of the Bold Brunettes

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Naming Girls

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by Weina Jin

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Globus

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Bhadrapur

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Where Is Here?

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Swan Hill

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bumblebee

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Alan Kurdi

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Timothy Winters

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Conor McMaster

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Brewery

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Salisbury Prison, 31 December 1966

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Tofu Synecdoche

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Gardens where there’s no need for a garden

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The Maestro

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Sword & spine

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clementine

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Raddle

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Snow

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The First Flower To Bloom

by Amelia Doherty

Stretch Marks

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The Shadow of a Fern

by Olivia Liu

The Friendship Tree

by A.F. Harrold

Judith

by Carla Scarano D’Antonio

Dressmakers

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Wreck

by Sharon Black

Chess at Baden-Baden, 1925

by Duncan Chambers

Small Hours

by Oliver Comins

Composing Herself

by Jenny Hill

Trade

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Dust in the wind

by Eben Roddis

Sons and Mothers

by Mukahang Limbu

She Cannot Speak

by Emmeline Armitage

The Black Box

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Permission

by Charlotte Sonnex

The struggles of being a Chinese kid in a white family

by Honey Birch

Not My Aesthetics

by Kathryn Welch

Paintings

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The Hushed Children

by Shannon Ryan

Redefining me

by Precious Ogunlowo

My Roots

by Shamiha Magezi

Unapologetic

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Not Black, Black

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Being Small

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a futile endeavour

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Topography of an Apple

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One Day

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St. Helens, Washington

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The Sorrowful Man

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Wormwood

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unwritten letter from my great-grandmother to my great-grandfather, 1930

by Enshia Li

archimedes’ principle / summer displacements

by Ella Standage

An Apology which is not an Apology but a Love Letter

by Eira Murphy

breaststroke

by Cia Mangat

The Lost Indigenous Language of Colombia

by Aisha Mango Borja

With love from Beryl

by Freya Carter

Anna Akhmatova’s Return to Leningrad

by Sabine Holzman

Hiding Places

by Jamie Hancock

Sikh Warriors

by Keirit Dosanjh

Flame Red

by Kutloogh Qureshi

somewhere

by Marina McCready

may 10, 1940

by Erin O’Malley

Notes on Various Squashes

by Padraig Regan

West Ride Out

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Perfect Smile

by Colette Bryce

Fata Morgana, 1987

by Aria Aber

Lungs

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museum of atlantic artifacts

by Taylor Fang

The Waves

by Kai Beaumont

Tui

by Evelyn King

A true companion

by Hugh Ryan

The Ghosts of New York Harbor

by Maya Miro Johnson

frays

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Back Home in Winter

by Abby Meyer

Savelugu Central Mosque

by Beth Davies

My Father’s Home

by Lovena Nawoor

how my trampoline gave me commitment issues

by Zuleikha Sayani

A church on the edge of the world

by Francesca Weekes

Camping In The Edgelands With My Cousin

by Amelia Doherty

Yarnbury

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The Stretch

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below ground level

by Astra Papachristodoulou

The Field

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Fire

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Room Six

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Brewing

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Sea Lily

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Watching Promise

by Sue Johns

Cutting the Strings

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A Brickie’s Tale

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The Door

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Reportage, Grenfell Tower

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On and Off the Wall

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Gated Community

by Mary King

The Walls Between Us

by Simon Currie

Walls

by Sarah Barr

Letting Her Go

by Bernie Cullen

Cavafy’s Barbarians

by John Gohorry

Winds of Change

by Sheila Schofield

The far wall

by F.J. Williams

Toy Town

by Mark Fiddes

The Penance of St Stephen

by Andy Jackson

Dr Mirabilis and the Brass Wall That Will Save England

by Konstandinos Mahoney

Giving birth to Monteverdi

by Meredith Andrea

Beloved

by Jane Lovell

Valedictory for Max

by Isabel White

The Planets in Love

by Emily Hana

On Wholeness

by Annie Fan

Scheherazade

by Cia Mangat

Heavy Home

by John Ashbery

Summer Job as Glacier Tour Guide

by Joyce Zhou

On the Rocks

by Ella Duffy

A Modern Penguin

by Ashley Arinze-Osimen

How?

by Meg Shearer

The Garden

by Abby Meyer

Take Hold

by Zainab Ismail

High-Tide

by Jamie Hancock

The Ice Polar Bear

by Maia Reedy

Ice Cover on Lake Michigan

by Ella Nowicki

Capricci of the Lagoon

by Jamie McKendrick

Dead Man’s Dump

by Isaac Rosenberg

Rangoon Lover

by Dai Weina

Weatherproofing

by Jennie Carr

A Doctor’s Questions

by Marilyn Longstaff

Early Winter

by Holly Hopkins

Shadows and Light

by Laura Foley

The Westray Storm Witch

by Julie-ann Rowell

Degrees of Formality

by Susan E. Holland

The Painted Skin

by Kit Fan

Roethke takes the boat to Ballinasloe

by Elaine Feeney

Boxing Day

by Julian Stannard

Letter from My Father, Odysseus

by D.M. Aderibigbe

Winding her

by Allis Hamilton

Earth Speaks

by Rachel Glass

Short

by Wayne Holloway-Smith

Our Oldest Relative

by Hannah Hodgson

Expediency

by John Blackmore

The Last Gods

by Maya Little

nothing to see

by Oakley Flanagan

Trump Card

by Lily Smart

Divorce Proceedings

by Nadia Lines

Listen Up

by Mary Webster

Why?

by Evan Burgess

Inverie

by Abby Meyer

They Came for the Shale

by James Tierney

Early April Heatwave

by Natalie Thomas

Richness

by Jacob Wright

La Fortuna, Costa Rica

by Katherine Liu

how to be an ocean

by Ella Standage

In Thanks

by Rosa Walling-Wefelmeyer

Eskerdale Green

by Hero Bain

demure

by Amelie Maurice-Jones

My Hurricane

by Jamie Hancock

Air and Angels

Torch Song

by Lucy Tunstall

By Longing

by Eleanor Hooker

Not again

by Natalie Whittaker

Names

by Mary Jean Chan

Considerations when Curating the Past

by Marina Sanchez

Sweetcorn

by Isabella Mead

On Not Knowing

by Lesley Saunders

What Can I Say?

by Peter Wallis

Epistle from inside the Sharknado

by Fran Lock

Never Say Never Say Never

by Patrick James Errington

Hiroshima, 1961

by Holly Singlehurst

The Grey Mirror

by Laura Scott

The Desktop Metaphor

by Caleb Parkin

Detuned Radio

by T.L. Evans

Eleven Years of May

by Marc Brightside

The Curfew

by Stephen Sexton

Claire Climbs Everest

by Sam Harvey

O’Sullivan

by Patrick Cotter

Her 她

by Zhou Zan

abutment

by Gillian Allnutt

what my mother (a poet) might say

by Mary Jean Chan

Carrying Grandma’s Plants Out of Her Apartment After the Move

by Daniel Blokh

Games

by Rahmoan Williams

The refrigerator at the end of the universe

by Charlotte Guterman

Inevitable

by Isabel Waters

Miss Take, What Mistake?

by Elliot Owen

Mr. Mujer

by Vivian Vasquez

What goes in my backpack?

by Vriti Ranka

Tea Dust

by Janice Hahn

Mother’s Pantheon

by Rebecca Oet

Ten Line Love Poem to Bold Street

by Eira Murphy

Under The Pier

by Salena Godden

VII – A Dark Interlude: in which Darkness herself comes across Morien’s dreaming body and is like woah. The dark waxes wan, the dark waxes red. Light is emitted from things that are dead:

by Jay Bernard

28 October: 5 months pregnant [Banana Baby]

by Hollie McNish

The Lichen Last Seen in 1982

by Harry Man

A Ship’s Whistle

by Will Eaves

You Can Watch Me Undress

by Melissa Lee-Houghton

Asylum Interview

by Caroline Smith

Southgrove Road Carol Singing

by Beth Davies

Eve

by Anna Farley

At the ending

by Emily Ingle

Window Light

by Emily Hana

the wasp graveyard

by Ella Standage

Snowed in

by Ben Vince

Thinning ice

by Josiah Mortimer

Ice-cream Men

by James Wijesinghe

Applejack

by Jacob Polley

Opening the Windows

by Susan Utting

Getting out

by Ann Gray

Wild Life

by Mary Livingstone

‘My name is Legion: for we are many’

by Ramona Herdman

The Fire’s Coming!

by Rosie Levene

Great Fire

by Emma White

Dust thou art

by H Mosforth

Fire

by Amelia Doherty

Revenge of the Flame

by William Thomas

An Evening in London

by Jamie Hancock

Self-Portrait with Secret

by Joan Michelson

First Ball

by Marianne Burton

Noah’s Notes (Preliminary)

by Penelope Shuttle

Not all of Cazabon’s paintings have been found

by Andre Bagoo

Prayer

by Zaffar Kunial

Termite Queen

by Fiona Benson

The Knights

by Matthew Sweeney

waters

by Ruby Robinson

Birdwatching

by Hugo Williams

Europa

by Pascale Petit

To Meet a Firebird’s Eye

by

Corps de Ballet

by A.B. Jackson

The Swan Princess Speaks

by Sujata Bhatt

Little Sister, Little Brother

by Tara Bergin

Beach Apparel

by Kavita A. Jindal

The Christmas Tree’s Secret

by Julia Copus

Reprieve

by Amber Garma

Captions to illustrations of mourning dress, in Vogue, 1916

by Denise Riley

The exhumation squad’s verses

by Denise Riley

Phantoms

by Annie Fan

Erasure

by Amy Wolstenholme

who is giselle?

by Amelie Maurice-Jones

Becoming Giselle: Poem in Two Acts

by Denisa Vítová

Who is Giselle?

by Jei Degenhardt

My War

by Amy Wolstenholme

Barthelasse

by Elizabeth Gibson

Paradise Riflebird

by Bronwen Brenner

Mountain Bikers in the Trenches

by Jennifer Burville-Riley

Trench Tea

by Ben Vince

Akhmatova in the Borscht

by Daniel Blokh

Pillar of Salt

by Tanya Kundu

The Contract

by Pat Winslow

Performance

by Robin Houghton

Towards Silence

by Pam Job

The Sunday Night Commute from Bucharest to London

by Maggie Butt

Coffee Ring

by T.L. Evans

Bringing Home the Cows

by Bernadette Lynch

A Conversation in Fingers between Sisters

by Sarah Roby

No News

by Con Connell

Solo

by Emma Danes

Silence

by Penny Ouvry

Elective Mute

by Susan Utting

Batting Partnership: 34 Not Out

by Maggie Butt

My Mother(‘s) Tongue

by Denisa Vítová

Hellenica

by Lorna Frankel

Ó Éirinn

by John Blackmore

The Ghost of a Mouth

by Meg Roseman

British Sign Language

by Hannah Hodgson

Unified

by Aisha Siddique

Stairs

by Chris Matthews

The Palette of Love

by Francesca Weekes

The lift, a green room for the wheelchair user

by Hannah Hodgson

pressing flowers between the pages of a biology textbook (30/07/16)

by Ella Standage

A Candle

by Harry Parks

Hometown

by Opefoluwa Sarah Adegbite

we play charades with shadows

by Opefoluwa Sarah Adegbite

Child

by Lorna Frankel

Tongue

by Ben Vince

POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome)

by Hannah Hodgson

Curiosities

by Angelique Cridland

An Uncertain History of My Life

by Nirvana Yarger

7 Pregnant Silences

by Janet Lancaster

Seeing in Halves

by Yasmin Inkersole

Exception to Snow

by Steven Chung

diphenyl oxalate

by Sophia Carney

sunny side up

by Roberta Sher

dolores

by Priya Bryant

sink

by Lucy Thynne

Making Glutinous Dumplings with My Mother

by Letitia Chan

Picnic at Hanging Rock

by Jennie Howitt

An Orison to a Future Comet

by Finn Scarr de Haas van Dorsser

Places to cry

by Eva Brand Whitehead

Apotelesma

by Emily Franklin

Not This Year Grandma

by Aisha Mango Borja

The Causeway, Lindisfarne

by Emily Dee

my ghost

by Cyrus Larcombe-Moore

Addison Lee

by Allegra Mullan

Kiyoshi and the Maple

by Paul Adrian

poem found inside a dumped fridge

by Evdokia Charalampous

Nine nights

by Malika Booker

poems 16628

by Denisa Vítová

Storm

by Jennie Carr

Rule No. 2 of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

by David Jones

Triolet, triolet

by Jeff Skinner

Jackdaw

by Leah Larwood

This too is art

by Fokkina McDonnell

Shakespeare Season

by Isabella Mead

3 Haiku from the Pit

by Lorna Frankel

Out in the Open

by Nat Norland

The Theatre Workshop

by Charlotte Chalkley

a pair of hands for Rusalka

by Eleanor Penny

Behind the Curtain

by John Blackmore

Musings of a Makeup Artist

by Lucy Thynne

Clean

by Hannah Hodgson

Cue

by Benedict Mulcare

Anti Mass

by Graham Burchell

Juliet on water

by Lucy Thynne

Fireflies Unlimited

by Anna Kisby

Small Song for a Lark

by John Scrivens

The Church of Self Destruction, Worship of the Evergreen Release

by Jason Khan

Live Another Day

by Katherine Spencer-Davies

Because the city was in mourning…

by Luke Kennard

The Water Replies

by Luke Kennard

The Persistence of Rubbish

by Luke Kennard

Etiquette at the Canalside

by Luke Kennard

Collage Poem for Wigan Pier

by Luke Kennard

What We Can Least Afford to Lose

by Luke Kennard

Sonnet for Hadley

by Luke Kennard

In Prvo Selo

by Chris Agee

The dogs in Greece are different

by Laura Scott

The Big Push

by John Glenday

Summer Photograph

by Amy Wolstenholme

mynydd y graig

by Eleanor Smith

dandelion clock

by Ella Standage

Twenty tourists in a motor boat watching marine plankton bioluminesce

by Rachel Lewis

Tree Talk

by Francesca Weekes

Slug

by Loe

The White Wolf

by Amelien Fox

the writer comes across a hedgehog at midnight or the hedgehog comes across a writer

by Rosa Walling-Wefelmeyer

Butterflies

by Alannah Taylor

A Woodpigeon

by Tanya Kundu

The Half-loved

by Laura Scott

Turing Test

by Franny Choi

beaches (1)

by Rebecca Perry

Winston

by Graham Mort

2015

by Mary Ruefle

Smell Dating

by Victoria Kennefick

Deadline

by Claire Booker

Suvaco do Cristo

by Olivia Dawson

My mother’s house

by Carole Bromley

Urinal blocks

by Kate Wise

Song of Scent Gland

by Rachel Piercey

To My Brother

by Vera Brittain

The Lantern Fly

by Jen Hadfield

A tree

by Mariano Peyrou

Today, the cars, too, are dancing

by Filipa Leal

f

by Antonella Anedda

The Nightingale in Badelunda

by Tomas Tranströmer

Pass, Passport, Passaporto, etc.

by Pia Tafdrup

Child With Photograph

by Kyriakos Charalambides

The Book

by Arvis Viguls

Under a Fridge Magnet, a Photo of Grandmother as a Schoolgirl

by

Steering someone else’s boat

by Luke Kennard

I Am A Man

by Jay Hulme

Mascara

by Damilare Haastrup

Bruises

by Georgie Smith

House of Words

by Damayanti Chatterjee

Sorry

by Ruth Awolola

Double Barrel

by Issy Prior-Stevens

Metamorphosis

by Abi Cook

Black And Gray

by Michael Murphy

Turf

by Michael Murphy

News Reel of Embarkation

by Timothy Corsellis

How to Kill

by Keith Douglas

Goodbye

by Alun Lewis

War Poet

by Sidney Keyes

El Alamein

by John Jarmain

In a Cardiff Arcade, 1952

by Gillian Clarke

The voice of a nation

by Emily Brown

Mind the Gap

by Opefoluwa Sarah Adegbite

An equilibrium?

by Jasmine Thom

‘We are dying here’

by Emily Reader

The secrets of the dominant patriarchal plant

by Faiza Manzoor

Equals

by Hannah Hodgson

United Unit

by Emily Raisin

Yousafzai

by Deborah Ashfield

Bed

by Mel Pettitt

Ulysses

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

France

by Miranda Peake

A Therapist Learns about Nesting

by Gina Wilson

The houses are coming

by Robin Houghton

The House is Not a House

by Tess Jolly

Her place in life

by Jonathan Mayman

Expedition, 1972

by David Wilson

The Red Helicopter

by Matthew Sweeney

Early Mandelstam

by Patrick Mackie

our town

by A.K. Blakemore

No faun

by David Hart

Night Errand

by Eric Berlin

Biracial

by Carolyn Oxley

Long Distance Relationship with a Mountain

by David Hawkins

Gentleman Caller

by Fran Lock

St Rose of Lima’s Revenge

by Geraldine Clarkson

Six

by Zaffar Kunial

Arillus

by Mara Adamitz Scrupe

Six Easy Calculations

by Howard Laughton

Tabasco

by Afra Kingdon

Peter Philips’ Part Book Talks to Brueghel

by Simon Jenner

Hearth-life

by A.B.

Memory

by Fashokun Adeoti

The History House

by Amelia Doherty

Through Marble Eyes

by Eleanor Flowerday

Unwritten History

by Emily Garratt

An Open Letter from Greys Court

by Marina McCready

From Alice’s Perspective

by April Egan

Bodkin Arrow

by Jake Talbot

The Difference

by Charlie Lambert

Outcast

by Gilda Hanson

The Splendid Longbow

by Monica Selzer

Sigh

by Barirah Ashfak

The Helmet

by Roahn Mohindru

The Arrow

by George Evans

Battle Tears

by Margaret Black

Agincourt

by Sam Williams

Agincourt through a Crow’s Eyes

by Freya Upton

The Eve of Crispin’s Day

by Colette Spaul

Land Speaks at Agincourt

by Matilda Houston-Brown

The Troubadour’s Song

by Nirvana Yarger

from We Are Writing a Poem about Home

by Kate Clanchy

Jug

by Elizabeth Burns

The Invisible Gift

by David Morley

Matsushima

by Chris Beckett

from Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling (2)

by Carole Satyamurti 1939-2019

He Tells Tales of Meroe

by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi

Dinner Party

by Eleanor Penny

agnes

by Lucy Thynne

Feast

by A.B.

The Middle Watch

by Clive Eastwood

Shall I compare thee

by Carole Bromley

Winter

by Emily Berry

Poison

by Caroline Price

Back to Black

by Jamie McKendrick

A summer’s day…

by Miles Burrows

Alteration (for Anne Hathaway)

by Jane Kite

Like As The Waves

by Lydia Harris

Mr WH’s Reply

by Nairn Kennedy

The Hillside

by Anna Kisby

December 1914

by Jan Wagner

Earth

by Sarah Kirsch

The Poems for Jacques

by Valérie Rouzeau

Discovery about a Young Woman

by Bertolt Brecht

When I Left You, Afterwards…

by Bertolt Brecht

Cat

by Emily Reader

Goldfish

by Jerrold Yam

The Duck

by Xenia Prinz

The Practical Man

by Denisa Vítová

Otter

by Lizzie Knell

Caged

by Chong Kai Qing

Ablation

by Helen Mort

Boat in Dry Dock

by Jo Bell

Springtime at the boatyard

by Jo Bell

Frozen In

by Jo Bell

River Steel

by Jo Bell

How to live on a boat

by Jo Bell

No Seafarer

by Jo Bell

Working Pair

by Jo Bell

My country

by Jo Bell

God’s promise to the boater

by Jo Bell

Channelled

by Jo Bell

Flaming June

by Alan Buckley

Andy

by Megan Watkins

Oxford Canal

by Sarah Watkinson

Towpath

by Caroline Cook

The Secret Song of the Tree

by Ian McMillan

poems 16342

by Jenny Grimes

Sonnet XV

by William Shakespeare

The Agincourt Carol

The Ballad of Agincourt

by Michael Drayton

The St. Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Candlelight

by Iona Mandal

untitled

by Loe

Cats

by Samah Akhtar

On a Substitute Teacher

by Elian Knell

Unrequited

by Rachel Glass

Lilith

by Soyla Ise

Mail Lady

by Maia Sauer

Curiosity

by John Blackmore

Tercets on Love – The Lovers

by Bertolt Brecht

He was easy to get..

by Bertolt Brecht

Glosa on ‘Woman of Spring’ by Joan Margarit

by Carol Rumens

Neighbourhood

by Adélia Prado

“The boy gives back the mango…”

by Valérie Rouzeau

“in his laughter your face…”

by Krystyna Milobedzka

an essay on midges

by Jan Wagner

Cat lives

by Sarah Kirsch

MCMXLIII

by Charlotte Higgins

Swallows and Swifts

by Charlotte King-Davies

Half-Halb

by Katharina Dixon-Ward

Sunrise

by Jennifer Burville-Riley

Who Am I to Talk?

by Denisa Vítová

untitled death, untitled war

by Lucy Thynne

Locket

by Maud Mullan

baby grand

by Allie Spensley

MRI

by Eira Murphy

. . . _ _ _ . . .

by Apollo

retrograde

by Ella Standage

Mr Grenway

by Riona Millar

Two ways of painting the picture

by Sophia Tait

Pbft

by Lydia Stone

Furnishings

by Jack Sagar

Mario Kart: Brain Circuit

by Ben Read

Number 9 in Love

by Kajol Marathe

The Snails Move Out

by Ian Macartney

Columbia Calling

by Gaia Rose Harper

How to be a patriot

by Sophia Carney

Compass-Point Lullabies for Emily

by Magnus Dixon

A Closeness

by Graham Burchell

Without darkness – no stars

by Marilyn Longstaff

Dusk

by Marion Tracy

The Middle Watch

There are no horses

by Charles Lauder Jr

In The Very Dark

by Claire Dyer

For Subway Graffiti

by David Attwooll (1949-2016)

The Patient Ghost

by Janet Dean

The Inquisition of St Giles

by Andy Jackson

Winter Solstice

by Tess Jolly

The best chairs

by F.J. Williams

Night time in the Village

by Chris Bridge

no sister no

by Julia Webb

Light box

by Emma Danes

The Day Patterns Whilst My Lover Cooks

by Victoria Grigg

Under Kew Railway Bridge

by Isabel Bermudez

Power Cut

by Victoria Gatehouse

The Glow

by Helen Farish

The poets who watched the sky at night

by Will Kemp

London’s Daughter is a Sufragette

by Colette Spaul

Vote. Voice. Victory.

by Angelique Cridland

the prisoner’s pageant

by Lucy Thynne

Feeding Clara

by Sophie Wallace

Cat meets mouse

by Rhiannon Williams

Modern Soldier

by Lauren Maltas

A response to ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’

by Hollie McNish

Rong Radio Station

by Benjamin Zephaniah

British National Breakfast

by Hollie McNish

Celebrate

by Dizraeli

Last Poet Standing

by Joelle Taylor

Dulce et Decorum Est

by Wilfred Owen

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

by Dylan Thomas

Ozymandias

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Charge of the Light Brigade

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Crystal Kisses

by Joelle Taylor

Alternate Take

by Kayo Chingonyi

Vampire Girls Summer

by Matilda Cormier-Stumpf

The Crick Poem

by Jo Bell

Bridge 1

by Jo Bell

Boat

by Jo Bell

Flickers

by Jamie Seymour

Film

by Rachel Glass

Motion Picture

by Nirankar Phull

Projection

by Nat Norland

Like in the Movies

by Natasha Bailey

from Sunspots

by Simon Barraclough

Behind the Dynamics

by Rhiannon Williams

Windswept, flecked with sparks

by Angus McCormick

Warming up for The Planets by Holst

by Georgina Menasche-Standen

Canal Life

by Ian McMillan

There is beauty in stripes

by Alison Riley

Planck

by Martin Zarrop

Adjustment

by Ruth Wiggins

The Mound

by Julia Webb

At Blackwater Tavern or ‘Lucky Polly’s twenty-two be damned!’

by Simon Robinson

September

by Katrina Naomi

Humanities

by Julie Lumsden

Playground

by Anna Kisby

Unregulated

by Kate Compston

The Plumber

by James Tate

Shadow

by Alice Oswald

Angels of Galway Harbour

by Terence Jones

Water chits

by Denise Bennett

Magician

by Frances Galleymore

Learning Magic

by Matt Barnard

Paying Attention

by David Olsen

Zebra on East 55th and 3rd

by Ian Humphreys

The Word

by Zaffar Kunial

Apples, Cherries, Apricots & Other Fruits in a Basket, with Pears, Plums, Robins, a Woodpecker, a Parrot, & a Monkey Eating Nuts on a Table

by Padraig Regan

The Sleep Council

by F.J. Williams

Love Cow

by Geraldine Clarkson

If I could write like Tolstoy

by Laura Scott

Hating Men

by Sara Peters

the psychology of forgetting (a business proposal)

by Anna Leader

The First Patient of Doktor Coppelius

by Catherine Nock

She is Me

by Esme Layton

Crude Does Not Become You

by Alison Graham

The Dream Speaks

by Smriti Verma

Harvest

by Zainab Ismail

Cleaning Jim Dine’s Heart

by Maura Dooley

I Walk the Streets

by Caitlin Harte

East London woes, East London dreams

by Nele Petri

Blood-red

by Judith Howe

the golden/ grime age

by A.B.

The book stall outside King’s Cross station

by Izabelle Chappell

The Mind Race

by Anna Gray

Reading is difficult

by Julia Head

Prancing Driftwood

by Iona Mandal

May Books Be Your Courage

by Orla Owen

For the Fallen

by Laurence Binyon

All the Hills and Vales Along

by Charles Sorley

The Rust Man

by Saduni Wanniarachchi

Untitled haibun

by Iona Mandal

the lonely figure of the cornish moors

by A.B.

Cycles of Arrival

by Jake Reynolds

Untitled haibun

by Melissa Thorne

Untitled haibun

by Amelie Maurice-Jones

In Flanders Fields

by John McCrae

Outside

by Michael Swan

First Days

by Sarah Westcott

Portrait

by Allison McVety

Names

by Stephen Wilson

Unsent Letter Fragment, Document Number 19055437, February 17, 1948, Museum of Immigration

by Pippa Little

Otherwise Known

by Diana Brodie

Hey Presto!

by Matt Barnard

Zoo

by Rob A. Mackenzie

Don’t tell me elephants can’t dance

by Kate Sealey-Rahman

Dust rises, Dust falls

by Carol Beadle

Parenting Class

by Emma Danes

Eliphibian

by A.C. Clarke

Tuesday, April, 1800

by Marianne Burton

Fabliau (or Loony Tunes at the Beijing Opera)

by John Weston

The Farm

by Lynne Hjelmgaard

HD 188753 Ab

by Mark Godley

The Gift

by Matt Barnard

The Painter

by Caroline Gilfillan

Yet More Foreign Cities

by Mike Horwood

Walk / Don’t Walk

by Brian Docherty

Foreigner

by Alison Jesson

Balcony in Hanoi

by Alison Jesson

Your New York

by Frances Green

Poems

by Laura Scott

Exorcising the Chemotherapy Wig

by Gill McEvoy

King Konged in Margate

by Jill Tritton

Golden Virginia

by Caroline Millar

Changing

by A.C. Clarke

Undercover Conversations With Storybook Heroines, IV

by Anna Bendix

The Man in the Red Pullover

by Patric Cunnane

Isabel’s Child

by Jane Lovell

Above Golden Bay

by Diana Brodie

‘A’ Level Text

by Heidi Williamson

Beached

by A.C. Bevan

Cut My Motor

by Barry Trench

Red Shoes

by Jaina Hart

Her Shoes

by Sylvia Greenland

The Farrier

by Frances Truscott

Photograph of an Iraqi Boy and a US Marine in a House in Ramadi, West of Baghdad

by James Bell

Footprints

by Stephen Wilson

After he knew

by Delores Gauntlett

Sir Thomas More

by Allison McVety

The Lunatic Cure

by Meredith Andrea

See Through

by David Burns

Skylight

by Carole Bromley

The Old Vicarage, Grantchester

by Rupert Brooke

The Soldier

by Rupert Brooke

Going Through

by Paul Stephenson

Poem 2

by Elvire Roberts

little one

by Geraldine Clarkson

Minuscule

by Lesley Saunders

‘You’re a snowdrop in snow’

by Gina Wilson

Spider Art

by Mark Carson

Melpomene

by Fran Lock

Bujold

by Annie Freud

Gen

by Jonathan Edwards

Cat on the Tracks

by Mark Pajak

Last exit to Luton

by Fran Lock

After the Calm

by Paul Nemser

Corkscrew Hill Photo

by Roger Philip Dennis

For a Liturgy

by Jason Watts

The Day the Deer Came

by Joanne Key

Ber Lin

by Jonathan Tel

Day Trippin’

by Tom Weir

The Crab Man

by Eliot North

Bees

by Beverley Nadin

Enough Sky

by Kevin Patrick McCarthy

Waterlights

by Qian Xi Teng

Shell

by James Watson

As long as we pray

by Madeline Price

A Family Affair

by J E M Naylor

Girl Fawkes

by Felicity Marks

Magpie

by Sian Mackay

Tom, Tom the Pipers Son, Jon Snow and me

by Martin McGann

Why do I hate you now?

by Sarah Howe

Unreadable Language

by H.H.

Fairy Tale Matches

by Sian Hogan

Following Forked Tongue

by Erin Halliday

Pictures

by Timothy Granville

Coffee Morning

by Swithun Cooper

Genevieve

by Lisa Clarkson

Passing the Time

by Caroline Bird

Summer Songs

by Amna Ahmed

Dancing

by Thomas Yates

Toad

by Ruth Yates

You Could Try and Retreive Your Ball from Our Garden, But

by Luke Samuel Yates

Hypothesis

by Kerry Sayers & Natalie Hitchin

Composed on a Futon

by Martin McGann

When the World Ends This is How It Will Be

by H.H.

Lady Brown is not available

by Kristina Close

The Last Lady Ratcatcher

by Liz Berry

Last Dance

by Harriet Torr

Off the Wall

by Andy Jackson

Tango

by Judith Lal

Skydancing

by Lindsay Fursland

Physio

by Emma Danes

A Stag Beetle Lectures on the Futility of Flight

by Barbara Cumbers

Farming the Wind

by Helen Overell

The Lost Egg of Carretta Carretta

by Lynn Woollacott

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