Treading Water

by Ian Humphreys

Landscape of wounds

by Claire Carlotti

Land of Wounds

by Crystal Peng

Woundistan

by Jhermayne Ubalde

Realm of Wounds

by Divya Mehrish

Bleeding Home (Wounded)

by Annie Lane

Wound Without End

by Gemma Craig-Sharples

Wound-i-stan Ghazal

by Charlotte Hughes

headwound

by Ellora Sutton

Tammy

by Elsie Hayward

Ode to Blu Tack

by Jack Cooper

Ode to a Desk Fan

by Ellora Sutton

Joy Museum

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To the Ladybird of Uber

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Ode to Pubes

by Dana Collins

After the Funeral

by Sairah Ahsan

Ode to a Dog Howling in the Background of Zoom Class

by Charlotte Hughes

ode to the fridge in our student house

by Ella Standage

The Angel Gabriel Visits Mary in Bedlam (Ecce Ancilla Domini!)

by Ellora Sutton

The Piano

by Mariah Whelan

Angel’s Flight

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Millais’ Return of the Dove

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You Bring Out the Bourgeois in Me

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Waging Peace

by Pat Winslow

Interior, Vincent Terrace

by Mark Wynne

Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales

by Ella Standage

Miss Clara, Rhinoceros in Venice

by Martin Reiser

Ash Flower

by Kirsten Luckins

Mollusc

by Mary Mulholland

Unliving

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Seascape, 1952

Cartoon

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Bride of a Beast

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the lake is enough to blind you

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hangul abecedarian

by Esther Kim

Pink Dress Pastoral

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Acquainting an Orange

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Shibboleth

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Body in Exile

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I asked them to look at the sea, as long as they wanted

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120 Bricks

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The Nineties

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Inheritors

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Paris

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About me

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Everything you’ve always wanted

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Novelty Race

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Making History

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The puzzle room

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A convocation of pylons considers how to celebrate country-wide conversion to renewable energy

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Letter from the Foothills

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hotboxing

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Poem Beginning with Lines from Ye Hongxiang*

by Jack Underwood

Red Hoover

by Rachel Long

Sunset

by Caleb Klaces

Sunrise

by Caleb Klaces

M

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Letters

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Suburbia in Isolation

by Yejin Suh

What I wish I could say during this pandemic

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Explaining Animal Crossing to my Nan

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Birds Bathing Under a Drainpipe

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shopping list as a sign of tenderness

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On wheels

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Outline

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Thus I became a heart-eater

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Translations in Survival

by Jewel Cao

Are Your Words Empty, Or Am I Hollow?

by Alice Brooker

Not All Warmth Consoles

by SZ Shao

Wildfires burn across Australia as Edward Cullen takes his top off for the twentieth time

by Elspeth Wilson

Bees

by Danann Kilburn

Earth (you are here)

by Jack Cooper

You Call it Eco-Trauma

by Mia Nelson

Grace or Trial

by Ellora Sutton

Tides

by Maggie Wang

Madame

by Alex Howe

(Just Not) Cricket at Les Névons

by Jamie Baty

Planks

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Found

by Jessie Taussig

Taken For Granted By Everyone

by Benjamin Whittaker

Paradisiac Snow

by Jonathan Huish

Interim Relief

by Mona Arshi

The Injection Lesson

by Dana Swensen

The Panther

by Tess Jolly

Last breath

by Jane Lovell

Boy cat

by Eithne Cullen

Kittens

by Sara Levy

Cat voice

by Matthew Griffiths

Artless

by Mairghread McLundie

Visit to the Monastery in Greece

by Penny Blackburn

Reading the Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy

by Susannah Hart

Letter from Kermanshah

by Rosie Shepperd

Middle Name with Diacritics

by Natalie Linh Bolderston

Reset

by Mark Pajak

Kindness

by Louisa Adjoa Parker

Due to a series of ill judgements on my part

by Joe Dunthorne

Where Dedushka Comes From

by Gerald Smith

MOONDADDY

by Charlotte Knight

Granddaughter Moves In

by Ann Pelletier-Topping

The fear will make the meat grow closer don’t be scared

by Wayne Holloway-Smith

How It Started

by Yomi Ṣode

from Bad Moon

by Samantha Walton

Hotel Grief

by Cheryl Moskowitz

Moon

by Jack Cooper

Deaf

by Hannah Hodgson

An Acre of Grief

by Amy McGinn

Cov City Centre, 5 AM

by Matthew Hayhurst

Magdalene Mothers

by Jamie Smith

Fill the Gaps

by Katherine Seagan

appointment

by Ellora Sutton

Things I should have done in person, that I did over the phone instead

by Hannah Ross

Autumn, 2019

by Tom Rowe

ill fate

by Elinor Clark

Epithalamion

by Linda Gregerson

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

by D.S. Marriott

The Poem in the Locket

by Natalie Perman

Predatory

by Jewel Cao

When the writer visited

by Jamie Baty

I fall in love about seven times a day

by Dale Booton

The Unofficial Financial Topography of Columbia, South Carolina

by Charlotte Hughes

Etcetera

by Anna Westwig

Wedding The Hand That Harms Me

by Amy McGinn

(newborn)

by Ellora Sutton

Fragments of my mother’s homeland underwater

by Natalie Linh Bolderston

Alipore Zoo

by Soumyaroop Majumdar

January

by Victoria Kennefick

birdknacks

by Kathrin Schmidt

Seams

by Alice Miller

On Form

by Nick Laird

Ice Baby

by Amy Acre

Stone Tape Theory

by Roddy Lumsden

Berlin Zoo

by Colin Pink

Pornography for Pandas

by Victoria Gatehouse

Animal House

by Jonathan Greenhause

Lord Percy And His Acquaintances Make An Excursion To Watch The Lunatickes At Bethlem Royal Hospital In The Year Of Our Lord 1610

by Christine Vial

From Z to A

by Rob Miles

The Howdah

by Judith Dimond

In The Mix

by Georgia McMillan

The Zumbiog

by Monica Yell

Smug as a Bug

by Jack Cooper

Moving Out

by Aliyah Begum

Ode to a Soup Dragon

by Beatrix Livesey-Stephens

When the Jambler Heard a Sound

by Amelie Coyle

Socks on my Ears

by Evie Tempest

We Couldn’t Help Melting The Snow

by Pieta Mackle Bayley

Vessels

by Hannah Swingler

The Gift

by Clare Pollard

In a New Light

by Jane Commane

From the Log Book

by Keith Jarrett

[Zeus] Anatomical Dolls

by Fiona Benson

Make Abstinence Great Again

by Alara Egi

Grief Counselling

by Ellora Sutton

Hound

by Tallulah Howarth

allegiance

by Maggie Wang

How do you freeze time?

by Megan Mumby

Best Left Unanswered

by Iona Mandal

Whispers Carried By The 3AM Winds

by Hania Habib

The other

by Amy Wolstenholme

pssssssssssssst

by Felix Stokes

To the reader (from a poet, with love)

by Amy Wolstenholme

The page is also the night where i climb out of

by Duy Quang Mai

being just a poem

by Maggie Wang

Brazil sends army to tackle Amazon Fires (BBC News, 24th August 2019)

by Jack Cooper

Raising a Poem-Baby

by Evie Collins

My poem sits next to fifteen poems at the workshop table

by Fathima Zahra

Promise it’ll be my last

by Matilda Houston-Brown

be poetic:

by Jewel Cao

How to Be a Dementia Friend

by Olivia Todd

how to make dolmeh with your mother

by Nazanin Soghrati

ten floridian commandments

by Emily Hana

How To Be Punched

by Jennie Howitt

How To Write Me, Your Personal Statement

by Tae Suzumiya

Penning My Thoughts

by Elaine Choy

How to be Remembered

by Anna Westwig

Baby

by Amy Wolstenholme

A poem for a moment with you

by Eisha Tandon

The funeral of half a stranger

by Morven Grey

Eating Pringles on the beach, alone

by Elspeth Wilson

Moments Like These

by Emma Rowley

Grandma

by Reham Younis

Warriors

by Elsie Hayward

Defining Moments

by Emily Garratt

mégy egyet kérnék szépen (one more please)

by Chloe Elliott

dead language

by Ella Standage

Pacify – If Alun Lewis had a Daughter

by Yvette Naden

Tapestry of War

by Rachel Haddy

this notch of time

by Maggie Wang

vergissmeinnicht

by Amy Wolstenholme

Alluvion

by Emily Liu

Cambridge 1941

by Eleanor Fullwood

Gold Beach

by Jack Cooper

Aria for the Dead Ones

by Peter LaBerge

speak out

by Amelia Dubin

A Morning Person

by Mary Ruefle

Blakeney, moonlight

by Michael Shann

They Came From Somewhere Else

by Veronica Zundel

The Mask

by Antony Mair

Sloes

by Hannah Brockbank

On Draining the St Martin Canal

by David Canning

The second lie

by Niall Firth

On reading Professor McGrath

by Alastair Llewellyn-Smith

Being Swedish in Pontlottyn Rugby Club

by Belinda Rimmer

The Dub Artist

by Penny Boxall

Sp/lit

by Claire Booker

Whitewash

by Isabella Mead

Home County

by Isabella Mead

When Ursula Tyrwhitt was Gladstone’s Lover

by Bernie Cullen

Appointments

by Helen Woods

Maple

by Talulah Quinto

Phlegethon

by Trinity Robinson

The Drowning of Li Po

by Thomas Frost

I want to stand naked in the school hall

by Lauren Hollingsworth-Smith

Zeyde

by Jean Klurfeld

my mother, with eight chemo sessions to go

by Dana Collins

Clocks

by Annie Davison

what are we before we are mothers

by Suzanne Antelme

Explaining Memes to Keats

by Nadia Lines

the opioid diaries

by Lydia Wei

Love Poem to Myself

by Cia Mangat

You’re Not Black

by Amy Saunders

Meritocracy

by Em Power

A Word of Advice

by Libby Russell

Regarding Anne Sexton

by Mark Fiddes

The Terminal 1 Smoking Lounge

by Jo Burns

In Which a Middle-Aged Woman in Primark Jeans Denies Her Invisibility

by Sue Burge

The Whole Tooth

by David Borrott

To Sugarcoat the Truth

by Jonathan Greenhause

Tamponade

by Eleanor Hooker

Talking to my Therapist about Climate Anxiety

by Nadia Lines

Like Father

by Rory Waterman

Nocturne for a Moving Train

by Valzhyna Mort

Group Portrait at the Stopover

by Romalyn Ante

Contingency

by Mark Waldron

Sacred and Profane

by Tehila Hakimi

St Lucy’s Day

by Elaine Feinstein

Cambridge 1949

by Elaine Feinstein

Poyekhali! (Let’s Go!)

by Olga Dermott-Bond

St Petersburg

by Rachel Burns

The River

by Natalie Linh Bolderston

one man band (gagarin plays the saxophone)

by Katie Kirkpatrick

bohemia

by Renée Orleans-Lindsay

Muse

by Joyce Chen

Today

by Nadia Lines

Today

by Aldwin Li

According to Google Translate

by Olivia Todd

today

by Beth Bayliss

Today I’ll sit in the museum

by William Snelling

danse des vivants

by Daniel Baksi

Today

by Isabella Jiang

I Saw

by Ellora Sutton

Today I am

by Maia Brown

Heading home, dusk

by Anna Szabó

Two Photographs

by Theresa Lola

Aspeciation

by Tom Rowe

Bothered

by Eve Perrins

More Than Organised Dust

by Olivia Todd

On the Skagerrak Sea, with child

by Ellora Sutton

Bones

by Rachel Bruce

Origins

by Jack Cooper

To my baby

by Alice Broadbent

Biography

by Glyn Maxwell

One vegan future (good/bad)

by Hugh Smith

from Notes from Utopia, Inc.

by Suji Kwock Kim

For Such a Widely Used Material, Glass Sure Does Have Some Downsides

by Joey Connolly

The Butter Festival

by Mary Ruefle

Ramadan, 2019

by Fathima Zahra

For Exile, or Chang’e Speaks from the Moon

by Natalie Linh Bolderston

Christmas Moon

by Max Dixon

Moon Watching

by Sophie Orman

lunacy

by Ellora Sutton

Wane

by Jack Cooper

Abe no Nakamaro’s moon

by Charlotte Chalkley

“Oh you know how it is, women and their little phases…”

by Amy Wolstenholme

The Moon as Different Types of Food

by Nadia Lines

Flèche

by Mary Jean Chan

Vanilla moon

by Phil Coleman

Gibbous

by Joanna Guthrie

Moonshine

by Angela Platt

Moon house

by Clare Best

Written on this moon

by Pauline Sturges

Drawing Down the Moon (A Ritual)

by Ellora Sutton

Maundy Thursday

by Simon Armitage

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

by Natalie Linh Bolderston

Morning After

by Mathilda Armiger

Brown girls’ anthem

by Fathima Zahra

Hilly City Ode

by William Snelling

to bee, or not to bee

by Georgie West

quoting baudelaire and living in the eighties

by Katie Kirkpatrick

Time Traveller

by Ellora Sutton

Bring

by Nadia Lines

Plot

by B.C. Leale

High-speed Bird

by Les Murray

Daphne

by Ellora Sutton

One for Sorrow

by Lauren Aspery

A private man, public spaces

by Jack Cooper

Love is a Hairy Moth

by Hebe Fryer

Mrs Mendeleev

by Emily Boyle

Lady

by Em Power

Pearl River

by Dan Fitt-Palmer

Ormulu at the Mad House

by Anna Thomas

the passing

by Georgie West

Gold

by Ben Vickers

The Father Field

by Joanne Key

First Year

by Carole Bromley

Bonnard Aria

by Sharon Olds

‘Each ant will one day be an Indra’

by Patricia Childerhouse

Fuck / Symphonies

by Inua Ellams

Taking the Ice Line

by Pat Winslow

Another Agony in the Garden

by Denise Riley

Word Clouds

by Peter Wallis

Deep Field

by Natalie Whittaker

from I Become a Delight to My Enemies

by Sara Peters

Then I Found Harmony Brown

by Harmony Holiday

The posh mums are boxing in the square

by Wayne Holloway-Smith

Do not indulge indigo

by Katie Griffiths

Saturday Collection Duty

by Lia Brooks

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

by Natalie Shaw

Fucking in Cornwall

by Ella Frears

Talisman

by Vasiliki Albedo

Princess

by Amaury Wonderling

Namazu at the Physicist’s Funeral

by Kirsten Irving

Polite Safety Notice

by Mark Fiddes

Near / Far Away

by Nick Garrard

Poem for a meme

by Chanchal Kumar

you/me, an intellectual

by Lydia Wei

The Inattentive Lover

by Nadia Lines

Spooky Scary Skeletons

by Emily Hana

it really do be like that sometimes

by Cia Mangat

Ode to Pepe the Frog

by Em Power and Elizabeth Thatcher

xu zhimo’s willow

by Lydia Wei

Barkskin

by Jack Helme

Felling

by Jei Degenhardt

Looking at Trees

by Theo Lewis

I am the Tree

by Yolanda Moran

parallel of a dead oak

by Natalie Perman

The White Trees

by Jayant Kashyap

Dermatology for Trees

by Stephanie Chang

Costa da Morte

by Nancy Campbell

Family Tree

by Patrick Tong

Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods

by Tishani Doshi

Joy Gardner, 1993

by Roy McFarlane

From ‘You, Very Young in New York’

by Hannah Sullivan

Play

by Susan Richardson

Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris

by Raymond Antrobus

I Miss the Slug Ooze of That Summer You Died

by Rainie Oet

Interrogation

by Vandana Khanna

The stopper

by Rob Miles

Griglan (Heathland)

by Sue Johns

In the Timeless University

by David Clarke

Bi-polar

by Lesley Saunders

-.. .- -. -.-. .

by Ella Standage

Home of the Codebreakers

by Liberty Hinze

From Bletchley With Love

by Jayant Kashyap

Codons

by Amy Wolstenholme

Bi-när

by Asmaa Jama

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

by Ellora Sutton

< Vera >

by Jack Cooper

Hidden Messages

by Thurab Sharifi

When I tell you about my day

by Hannah Hodgson

Prism

by Sharon Phillips

The Beast in Cyberspace

by Sarah Reeson

Her Flowers

by Pascale Petit

[episode]

by Ralf Webb

from The white jumper

by Will Harris

Past Name Days

by Kinga Fabó

Rain Born under a Leo Sign

by Duo Yu

Assemblage des Beautés

by Janet Sutherland

Look into My Lights

by Joseph Coelho

Untitled / Villanelle

by Gail McConnell

That Night

by Ellora Sutton

Stages of Grief

by Gwenllian Rees

Void

by Olivia Todd

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

by Quinn Lui

Star

by Samantha Lascelles

Different Roads

by Sally Liu

Side Effects

by Christiane Hitchcock

youth realisation through conversation

by Tallulah Howarth

jook-sing

by Quinn Lui

Tranny Slag

by Jake Street

bone apple tea

by Lydia Wei

ends

by Marina McCready

Vernacular

by Jeremy Hsiao

Wyoming

by Lydia Wei

My Mother’s Return

by Lucy Thynne

Splash

by William Snelling

Journey

by Natalie Linh Bolderston

No Ears

by Olivia Todd

Fading Women

by Nazanin Soghrati

Tickover Speed

by Joseph Butler

Gomorrah

by Isaac Silver

After they throw eggs at your house

by Natalie Linh Bolderston

To Lev Gumilyov

by Lydia Wei

Boys in the Sky

by Em Power

Anna

by Matilda Houston-Brown

Me Sitting at Home Having Suffered Next to Nothing

by Beatriz Santos

The Journey Home

by Eleni Cay

To Kill a Spider

by Wendy Klein

To bring me luck

by Josephine Corcoran

Folklore from 35,000 Feet

by Janet Lancaster

North of all countries

by Julie Corbett

Let’s Burn the Lot

by Rob Miles

Appleland

by Lesley Ingram

against a wolf at the door

by Helen Jayne Gunn

Trawlermen

by Jennie Carr

The Cake Mixture

by Leah Larwood

Landfall at daybreak

by Helen Overell

A Traditional Cure

by Richard Westcott

In the Nude

by Lucy Thynne

God in 80s Movies

by Em Power

Elephantsong

by Cia Mangat

small print

by Suzanne Antelme

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

by Georgie Woodhead

Nature’s diagnosis

by Sophie Thynne

The Beauty of Right Now

by Elizabeth Thatcher

At the Funeral

by Maggie Olszewski

Talking to my car

by Sammy Loehnis

Of All Colours

by Angela King

House with Missing Teeth

by Olivia Hu

Snakes and Ladders

by Suki Datar Jones

Mr Sigiriya’s Weird and Wonderful Talents

by Maiya Dambawinna

Mrs Richards’ Year

by Caitlin Catheld Pyper

Recipe for a Towpath Garden

by Nancy Campbell

Lobster Shift

by Mathilda Armiger

Recipe for a Towpath Garden

by Nancy Campbell

Newly in love, distracted neuroscientists ♥

by Sarah Barnsley

Polar Bear

by Carl Griffin

On the conservation of mass

by Steve Xerri

I am drinking yellow flowers

by K.V. Skene

The Nature of Glass

by Lesley Saunders

Collapsible deer

by Rachel Piercey

from Thomas Hobbes (1588–) Works Motherhood

by Alison Winch

During the Recent Thunder & Lightning

by Maurice Riordan

Self-Portrait without Stitches

by Safia Elhillo

Three Qualities

by Anna Maria Carpi

In July

by Nancy Campbell

Forgotten Holst

by Mathilde Jansen-Toft

(Into)national Anthem

by Aidan Tulloch

ode to oud

by Annabelle Fuller

Sea Interlude, Blackpool 1987

by Ian Harker

Bwbachod’s lament

by Olga Dermott-Bond

Grass Like His Mother

by Rachel Curzon

A Young Man’s Song

by Nansŏrhŏn

Don’t

by Kim Hyesoon

centaur

by Richard Scott

Emerging from Matter

by Keith Jarrett

how to catch a god

by Laura Scott

soundwaves

by Ella Standage

[the space within]

by Annika Cleland-Hura

listen to the middle voice.

by Felix Stokes

Take a Deep Breath

by Ellora Sutton

ECHO

by Ella Duffy

Romeo & her alphabet

by Ivy Xun

synesthetic translations

by Emily Hana

Untitled

by Stephanie Themistocleous

Tangerines

by Hugo Williams

A Dream of Langland

by M.E. Rose

In The Mortuary

by Craig Raine

das Unbehagen in der Kultur (Civilisation and Its Discontents)

by Natalie Perman

new york, 1984

by Lydia Wei

arrochar alps

by Alice Hill-Woods

the civilised man

by Marina McCready

Blood clots in egg

by Olivia Sandhu

Temper

by Ellie Fullwood

Civilisation

by Meg Ozia Stockwell

Inevitable

by Liberty Hinze

Clast

by Ruth Padel

Rain Twice

by Helen Mort

Flame Eater

by Sue Davies

At Sanctuarul Urşilor

by Claire Booker

Mercy Invincibility

by Vidyan Ravinthiran

The Present Is Constant Elegy

by Peter Gizzi

No Truce

by Clara Janés

Sound Machine

by Raymond Antrobus

Spiritualist Church

by Liz Berry

Why I Won’t Run Away to Join the Circus

by N.J. Hynes

The Circus on St Kilda

by Christopher James

Tight Rope

by Isabella Mead

dicks like jesus

by A.K. Blakemore

[Extracts from Love]

by Wayne Holloway-Smith

Golowan

by Jenny Hamlett

there is no such thing as a woman

by Zara Shams

caryatid

by Ella Standage

Instructions to the Three-Year Old Grandchild

by Fiyinfoluwa Timothy Oladipo

ishah

by Natalie Perman

Fighting into the Night, for Light

by Dipo Baruwa-Etti

Goodbye in America

by Ellora Sutton

Choreography

by Kayo Chingonyi

Give Invisible

by Sugar J

Balotelli

by Roger Robinson

Lone Star

by Nick Makoha

SAY

by Will Harris

The Stain on London’s Dress

by Sophie Thynne

Yellow Stickers

by Meredith LeMaître

#EndHungerUK

by Carol Chen

Breadlines

by Matt Sowerby

My Grandmother Tells Me About A Famine

by Annie Fan

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

by Rohan Chakraborty

Universal Basic Income

by Dipo Baruwa-Etti

A Closed Fist

by Natasha Moore

The Miracle of Mould

by Jade Cuttle

i pass the Nearly on my way to school

by Felix Stokes

Missed

by Abby Meyer

this is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment

by Marina McCready

I nearly kept a secret

by Tilly Goodwin

Resurgam

by Annie Fan

Had I Lived

by Maya Miro Johnson

Haruspex

by Fiona Benson

After the Formalities

by Anthony Anaxagorou

Craquelure

by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Milked

by Hannah Lowe

Blitz Hits The Langham, Most Haunted Hotel in England

by Margot Myers

Hotel Palarine

by Mara Bergman

Hotel

by Matt Pitt

Heaven on the 7th Floor

by Patricia Ace

View from a Travelodge Window

by Tess Jolly

Country House Hotel

by Maggie Butt

Inventions at the Asylum

by David Grubb

Danube 1994

by Paul Talbot

AngelBat

by Joseph Butler

Perishable Goods

by Jane Slavin

Till It’s Gone

by Peter Kahn

The Telling

by Robert Powell

Muirburn

by Yvonne Reddick

The Window

by Mary Jean Chan

Oiled Legs Have Their Own Subtext

by Momtaza Mehri

The Opened Field

by Dom Bury

The Name Behind the Jersey (Mikel John Obi)

by Lydia Wei

Big Man Like You

by Hazel Vimbainashe Kamuriwo

eni

by Natalie Perman

Elements

by Nancy Campbell

A Shooting Script 1987

by Inua Ellams

The last fare collector of Hiroshima

by Antony Owen

A man called Harold

by Greta Stoddart

Kumukanda

by Kayo Chingonyi

From ‘Surge’

by Jay Bernard

Blodeuedd

by Matthew Francis

Stephanie

by Caroline Bird

I Dream

Swapping Places With Grandad

by Matilda Houston-Brown

Rose Garden Lane

by Kyle Liang

shades of brown

by Fiyinfoluwa Timothy Oladipo

Ode to Food that is “Too Spicy”

by Michelle Yang

Wanting, needing, having

by Jake Street

Wish List

by Iona Mandal

‘I wish to see the man in the moon’

by Cecilia Hornyak

Love in the Time of Cold

by Laura Potts

catalogue of lights

by Ella Standage

Safety Briefing

by Nancy Campbell

Maintenance

by Luke Kennard

80,000 Gallons to a Lock

by Luke Kennard

International Workers’ Day

by Holly Pester

Dandelion

by Amelia Doherty

The Adolescent Adventures of the Bold Brunettes

by Katie Kirkpatrick

Canadian bear

by Xanthe McElroy

大曲の花火 (Omagari no Hanabi)

by Abby Meyer

Naming Girls

by Matilda Houston-Brown

Lindfield

by Francesca Weekes

blackheath

by Ella Standage

a sojourn in venice, the “drowning city”

by Weina Jin

call me

by Luca Demetriadi

Globus

by Olivia Todd

Bhadrapur

by Sarahana Chemjong

Where Is Here?

by Annika Cleland-Hura

Swan Hill

by Jennie Howitt

bumblebee

by Emma Reilly

Alan Kurdi

by Muhammad Amin

Timothy Winters

by Marlene Agius

Conor McMaster

by Lucas Sheridan-Warburton

Brewery

by Lee Young-Ju

Salisbury Prison, 31 December 1966

by O. Flote

Tofu Synecdoche

by Jang Su-Jin

Gardens where there’s no need for a garden

by Penelope Shuttle

The Maestro

by Hisham Bustani

Sword & spine

by Jade Cuttle

clementine

by Ella Standage

Raddle

by Ella Duffy

Snow

by Joshua Persico

The First Flower To Bloom

by Amelia Doherty

Stretch Marks

by Cia Mangat

The Shadow of a Fern

by Olivia Liu

The Friendship Tree

by A.F. Harrold

Judith

by Carla Scarano D’Antonio

Dressmakers

by Jennie Carr

Wreck

by Sharon Black

Chess at Baden-Baden, 1925

by Duncan Chambers

Small Hours

by Oliver Comins

Composing Herself

by Jenny Hill

Trade

by Chelsea Stockham

Dust in the wind

by Eben Roddis

Sons and Mothers

by Mukahang Limbu

She Cannot Speak

by Emmeline Armitage

The Black Box

by Arinola Adegbite

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

by William Tracy-Youngs

The Hushed Children

by Shannon Ryan

Redefining me

by Precious Ogunlowo

My Roots

by Shamiha Magezi

Unapologetic

by Tinuola Ibrahim

Not Black, Black

by Elijah Hammond-Dallas

Being Small

by Saffron Baldoza

a futile endeavour

by Marina McCready

Topography of an Apple

by Lyra Davies

One Day

by Suzanne Antelme

St. Helens, Washington

by Ruby Evans

A High

by Neave Scott

secrets

by Natalie Perman

The Sorrowful Man

by Max Dixon

Wormwood

by Margot Armbruster

the parents anniversary

by Lucy Thynne

Tracks Take 2

by Irina Petra Husti-Radulet

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

by Ishion Hutchinson

Perfect Smile

by Colette Bryce

Fata Morgana, 1987

by Aria Aber

Lungs

by Jeremy Hsiao

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

by Amelie Maurice-Jones

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

by Theo Lewis

The Stretch

by Maya Little

below ground level

by Astra Papachristodoulou

The Field

by Eilidh Adamson

Fire

by Evie Johnson

Room Six

by Sharon Black

Brewing

by Julia Webb

Sea Lily

by Anna Kisby

Watching Promise

by Sue Johns

Cutting the Strings

by Patricia McCaw

A Brickie’s Tale

by A.P. Fraser

The Door

by Kaye Lee

Reportage, Grenfell Tower

by Joan Michelson

On and Off the Wall

by Wendy Klein

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

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Isabel’s Child

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Above Golden Bay

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‘A’ Level Text

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Beached

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Cut My Motor

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Red Shoes

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Her Shoes

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by James Bell

Footprints

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After he knew

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Sir Thomas More

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The Lunatic Cure

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See Through

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Skylight

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Going Through

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little one

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Minuscule

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‘You’re a snowdrop in snow’

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Spider Art

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Melpomene

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Bujold

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Gen

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Cat on the Tracks

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Last exit to Luton

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After the Calm

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Corkscrew Hill Photo

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For a Liturgy

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The Day the Deer Came

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Ber Lin

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Day Trippin’

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The Crab Man

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Bees

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Enough Sky

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Shell

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As long as we pray

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A Family Affair

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Tom, Tom the Pipers Son, Jon Snow and me

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Why do I hate you now?

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Unreadable Language

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Fairy Tale Matches

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Following Forked Tongue

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Pictures

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Coffee Morning

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Genevieve

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Passing the Time

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Summer Songs

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Dancing

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Toad

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

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Composed on a Futon

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When the World Ends This is How It Will Be

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Lady Brown is not available

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The Last Lady Ratcatcher

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Last Dance

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Off the Wall

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Tango

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Skydancing

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Physio

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The Lost Egg of Carretta Carretta

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A Sort of Ark

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Quartet for the End of Time

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A Portrait of Death As an Artist

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Act of War

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Corporal Smith Sees the M.O.

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France, 1941

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One Night Stand

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Kestral

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Tweed Sestina

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My Grandmother’s Purse

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Alexandria

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On Top of the Hill

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Staring Strangers

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Big Apple

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Scattering

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Gemini

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Woman in a Film

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‘Las Meninas’ Includes the Artist

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Self-Portrait Without Breasts

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Self-portrait as a drop of water

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Under the Carob, Tired and Hallucinating

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The Washhouse at Relleu

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Miss Bankhead’s Invitation to Dinner

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Tracing His Veins

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Complications Within the Cards

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An Irish Airman Forsees His Death

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Gap Year Letter from a Five-Toed Sloth

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After Hours

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Jabez Few’s Six White Mice

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My Perfect Father

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Pinochet’s Garden

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How to be a Cat’s Eye on the A46

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Storm on the Motorway

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Breakdown

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Amnesia

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Suspect 10

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Kraken

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Torn Wallpaper

by Shamima Begum

Afterlife

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Eternal Plane

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my journey

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Working Up

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Christina The Astonishing Arrives in Covert Crescent to Prepare The Faithful for The End of Days

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Home

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The Laodicien

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Upon Feeling Homesick

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The Lonely Places

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The Spanish Islands

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Vanishing Point

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Elsewhere

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Jack

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Handwriting

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Meeting Moon

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The Summoner

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Exit a Princess

by Patricia Hahn

Heroes of Our Islands

by D A Prince

Ghazal : Sister

by Pete Halliwell

Panel Beater

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The Dance

by Katherine Gallagher

Hope

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Costa

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Young Female Spectator, circa 1890

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Consumption

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Keepsake

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Equinox

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For the Multinational Toy Manufacturers

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Exorcising the Machine

Switch over

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Revolutions

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Storm at Sea

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Theatricals

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Breath

by Emma Danes

Not Clear

by Michael Swan

Disclosure

by Sarah Westcott

Above the Alameda Gardens

A Happening at Great Dixter Gardens

by Katrina Naomi

Bawd at Fiesta San Alberta

by Christopher North

A&E

by Emma Danes

Fish

by Martin Figura

Breaking the rules

by Nina Boyd

On Saturdays father wrote sermons

by Jacky Tarleton

The pirate inside

by Will Kemp

Horizon

by Tom Cunliffe

Tiger

by Tess Jolly

Fine dark stripe

by Rosemary Norman

Handmade in Guangzhou

by Robin Houghton

Bee Mornings

by Julia Webb

In tune

by Helen Overell

Lines as the Sun Rises Above the Pine Copse

by Gwyneth Box

Background effect

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Salt

by Conor Beales

The Patron Saint of Poetic Words

by Maggie Butt

Sky

by Julie Corbett

Banyan Stripes

by Sudeep Sen

Pilgrimage

by Carole Bromley

Coming Back

by Wendy Searle

Remortgaged

by Sarah James

On Sundays

by Paul Stephenson

Barometer

by Eve Jackson

In

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Received Pronunciation

by Sally Goldsmith

Gosmari, Albertel and Carvoncello

Time Capsules

by Frances Green

Torfaen

by Philip Williams

Postcards for Dorothy Pinkney

by Lois Wilson

Tide

by Philip Rush

The Apres-ski Was Not What She Expected

by Annie Chance

At a Loss

by Alessio Zanelli

Ghost-writing the Climber

by Kristina Close

Flawed Boxing Metaphors

by Robin Kidson

Rout

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Lady Sword Swallower

by Pat Murgatroyd

Cri de Coeur

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Winners And Losers

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Old Friend Seen on TV

by Michael Swan

I Do Not Collect Owls

by Dorothy Pope

Doll (Customized)

by Sarah Westcott

Dear Ugly

by Will Kemp

My language is not your language

by Rebecca Hughes

July 1976

by Will Kemp

The Orchid

by David Van-Cauter

Sunday Evening, 1941

by Carole Bromley

These Roses

by Julie Corbett

Abuella

by Jane Kite

Plume

by Olivia Dawson

A Consultation on the Weather

by Keith Bennett

Clock Swallower

by Michael Scott

Drought

by Annette Volfing

In Time of Drought

by Chris Bridge

Resurrection

by Brian Clark

English Journey

by Will Kemp

Kankrebihar

by Tracey Martin

Speech

by Olivia Walwyn

New Winds

by Lynn Woollacott

Nazareth House

by Jane Lovell

Farm Sale, North Yorkshire

by Hilary Jenkins

Neglect

by Helen Overell

The White Owl

by Emily Bilman

Drown

by David Penhale

Clapper boards

by Alwyn Marriage

Scotch Blackfaced Ewe

by Hilary Jupp

Reverse Space

by David Van-Cauter

Dracula

by Lucy Johnston

Mr Rochester’s Secret

by Judith Howe

They creep around…

by Luka Philip

The New Faustus

by Nat Norland

The wind blows low and mournful…

by Izabelle Chappell

Poem For George The Medic (And His Cadaver)

by Ruby Mason

A Shrunken Head

by John Levett

Night Feed

by Charlie Druce

Documentary Evidence

by John Daniel

Ray Charles Visits Suite 1, Radiotherapy Department, Christies Hospital, Manchester, England

by Linda Chase

Powerpoint

by Ruth Valentine

My Year of Culture After Kathleen Ossip

by David Briggs

The Onion Man

by Valerie Smith

Autumn Peas

by Ilse Pedler

Global Veg

by Simon Currie

Desi New Year

by Graham Norman

On Planting Potatoes at Easter

by Robin Kidson

Topical Tip

by Caroline Cook

Neighbours

by Julia Webb

Moving In

by Susannah Hart

Double Take

by A.C. Clarke

Neighbours

by Patricia Ace

Mote & Beam

by Helen Overell

The Shoe

by Diana Brodie

Taxidermy for the Giraffe

by Sarah Davies

Small Town

by Peter Doyle

Germ Theory

by Lesley Saunders

The Dark Year

by Rodney Wood

The Naming of Parts

by Meg Cox

The Griffins at Wallington

by Simon Currie

Evolved

by Sarah James

Good Neighbours

by Adrian Hogan

The Card-Box

by Kate Noakes

Games Mistress

by Doreen Hinchliffe

The point of release

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The Rec at Sunset

by Anthony Watts

Forward Operating Base Robinson

by Timothy Brewis

Prisoner of War

by D A Prince

The Art of War

by Gill Nicholson

In the Museum

by A.C. Clarke

Birth Song

by Angela Croft

Affair with the Professor

by Anna Kisby

Artist at Work

by Harriet Torr

Leonardo’s Foetus

by Kevin Salmon

Studies of the Foetus in the Womb

by Dorothy Yamamoto

Womb

by Paul Stephenson

Wedding Quilt

by Emma Danes

Star Man

by Maitreyabandhu

A Questionnaire for the Asteroid Belt

by Sarah Doyle

Eclipse

by Carole Bromley

Widow Wickramasinghe’s Small Secret

by Frances Green

Winter Stars

by Paul Blake

The Hadron Collider Star Recipe

by Ann Chance

R&R

by Josh Ekroy

Plum-Plum

by Dorothy Lehane

The Farrier

by Mark Carson

Stone

by Caroline Cook

Ford

by Robbie Burton

Romance and Emergencies

by Lara Frankena

Beyond His Capacity

by Pat Murgatroyd

Nocturnal

by Judith Taylor

Flightless Gift in a Pub Garden

by Euan Tait

A Vase of Flowers

by Isabella Mead

Outing 1964

by Hilary Jupp

Harsh Coast

by Jenny Morris

Comparisons

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Dunbar Avian

by Linda Goulden

Up North

by Louise Wilford

Finding True North – Boxing the Compass

by Neil Lockwood

Above the Washburn Valley

by Barry Tempest

Lakeside Garden

by Carole Bromley

The Bridge in the Rain

by Alyss Dye

Black Water

by Paul Blake

Blue Lake

by Sally Flint

Queen Conch Ode

by Geraldine Clarkson

Drawing the Tea

by John White

Remembering Heligan

by Brigid Sivill

In the Garden

by Julie Lumsden

Giant Hogweed

by Patricia Ace

Cloth

by Tess Jolly

In Fashion

by Anna Kisby

Wake

by Carol DeVaughn

Afterwards

by Helen Jagger

Circles

by Sharon Black

Mismothering

by Suzanna Fitzpatrick

In That Year

by Kim Moore

On Nazim Gafurri Street

by Lesley Saunders

The Ring

by Denise Bennett

Whetstone

by Colin Pink

Goldfinches

by Josh Ekroy

Lessons in Fuzzy Felt

by Janet Lees

Was it for this

by Gill Learner

Cimsagro

by Jill Munro

Crocodile

by Jonathan Edwards

from Tithonus

by Alice Oswald

One Tourniquet

by Andrew Motion

A Birthmother’s Catechism

by Carrie Etter

A century later

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Much After ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Act II, Scene 3

by Copland Smith

from Telling Tales Prologue (Grime Mix)

by Patience Agbabi

Reflection, July 1938

by Sue Butler

Missing

by Pauline Keith

Body Sonnets VIII: The Magdalen

by Rachel A. Dilworth

Coming Down to Drink

by Frank Dux

Flat Dad

by Patrick Brandon

The Willow

by Jess Steele

Parachutes for Birds

by Lucy Arnold-Foster

Larus

by Maria Calinescu

Swish

by Sam Coleman

laconic

by Sohini Basak

Blackbird

by Harriet Whitaker

Encore, Mr Fox!

by David Kennedy

The Hairdresser from Beirut

by Rosemary Norman

Embrace

by Rhian Gallagher

New Fruit

by Ann Drysdale

Then in the twentieth century

by David Hart

The Lazy Maid

by James Manlow

Bud Fields and His World

by David Grubb

From Professor Nobu Kitagawa’s Notebooks On Effects of Lightning on the Human Body (Tr. from the Japanese by N. Kitagawa)

by John Latham

ju ju baby

by Caroline Carver

Dole Queue

by Michael Hulse

The Flitting

by Medbh McGuckian

Timer

by Tony Harrison

Fantasy of an African Boy

by James Berry

Nothing for Light

by Greta Stoddard

#Poem

by Tommy Sissons

Emotional Euthanasia

by Sadia Ahmed

No Double Digits

by Saoirse Lennon

The Missile That Flies

by Abdullah Alselami

An Autistic Love Note

by Katie Walters

Prayer

by Ibukun Badmus

Whoever She Was

by Carol Ann Duffy

The Death of Richard Beattie-Seaman in Belgian Grand Prix, 1939

by Tony Curtis

Between the Lines

by Carole Satyamurti 1939-2019

The Widow’s Dream

by Martin Reed

A World Elsewhere

by William Scammell

No Return Policy

by Jamie Uy

The Arctic Tern’s Prayer

by Mary Anne Clarke

Green Tears

by Serena Cooke

FAO

by Jake Reynolds

Desert

by Eric Aupperle

An English Airman Recalls His Death

by Phyllida Jacobs

From Home

by Mary Anne Clarke

Evaporations

by Alice Oswald

Growing a Tree: Five Songs

by Kevin Crossley-Holland

Decorating the Tree

by Kevin Crossley-Holland

The Kindness of Trees

by Jackie Kay

Roots

by Roger McGough

Green Magi

by John Agard

Tree Song

by Kit Wright

Of Mice and Many

by John Hegley

Room Service

by Nick Rice

Protestant Windows

by Sam Gardiner

The Silkies

by David Hart

undressing

by Beatrice Garland

Homeland

by Jon Sait

The Third Wife

by Mike Barlow

William Bradford, Elder

by Suzanne Batty

from ‘Tucked in where they fell’

by Denise Riley

from Letter for the Unknown Soldiers

by Zaffar Kunial

from War Poem

by Warsan Shire

from Rising

by Steve Ely

Place Name: Oracabessa

by Kei Miller

Microscopic

by Daisy Behagg

Stem of Wallflower / Hair of Doormat

by Amy Key

Nun on a Bicycle

by Jonathan Edwards

Uht-Sang

by David Gravender

An Idea of Order

by Michael Murphy

Beeline

by Neetha Kunaratnam

The Afterlife

by Neetha Kunaratnam

Choirsinger

by Tamara Fulcher

from the Cave Painting

by Andrew Bailey

Green Bananas

by Lucie McKee

A Bag of Tangerines

by Rebecca O’Connor

Moss

by Anna Wrigley

Beloved Daughter

by Anna Wrigley

Keith Chegwin as Fleance

by Paul Farley

Believed

by Simon Rae

The Frame of Furnace Light

by James Harpur

Lifted

by Jo Bell

Grand Union Bridge

by Ian Duhig

The Water Doesn’t Move, The Past Does

by Ian McMillan

The Black Delph Bride

by Liz Berry

Goldfields

by Tess Jolly

Smith

by Tony Lucas

The Guest

by Paul Stephenson

6 a.m.

by Sharon Black

Gold Song 9

by Nicola Mayne

Portrait of the Mother as a Pitcher

by Anna Kisby

Searching for the Police Tower, Orford Ness

by Robin Houghton

Owner of an emptiness

by Jan Bay-Petersen

Stone written

by Angela Stoner

Lent

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I Wasn’t There

by Michael Swan

Fancy Man

by Julie Lumsden

Daniel Craig: The Screensaver

by Richard Goodson

In the shadows

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The Enigmatic Order

by Manuel Rivas

Apparition

by Stéphane Mallarmé

Marked and extracts from The Mystery of Prayers

by Luljeta Lleshanaku

As I Roved Out (Aube)

by Arthur Rimbaud

from Seizing : Places

by Hélène Dorion

from 1001 Winters

by Kristiina Ehin

The Homecoming

by Manuel Rivas

The Madwoman’s Roof

by Luljeta Lleshanaku

The Tomb of Edgar Poe

by Stéphane Mallarmé

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Demotic Nocturne (Nocturne vulgaire)

by Arthur Rimbaud

from Formerly

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from Brand New Ancients

by Kate Tempest

from A Part Song

by Denise Riley

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by Mario Petrucci

from The Mara Crossing

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Pisces

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from The Museum of Disappearing Sounds

by Zoë Skoulding

DAISY

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Michael the Archangel

by Steve Ely

from Zones of Avoidance

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Ellipsis

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Changing Shape

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Loudness

by Judy Brown

The Sore Thumb

by Matt Barnard

In Your Shoes

by Dorothy Pope

About the Olden Days

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Jack Lattin of Morristown

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Victor

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17

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Muslim Girl

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XVIII. Before

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IX. Between

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Adlestrop

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It’s not me, it’s you

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Independence

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Referendum Blues

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Frontier

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Worry and Comfort

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Last Chance Love Letter

by Haf Davies

Two Million Steps

by Charlotte Higgins

Cornerstones

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Das Spiel – Weihnachten 1914

by Ian McMillan

Le Match: 25 Décembre 1914

by Ian McMillan

De match: Kerstdag, 1914

by Ian McMillan

The Game: Christmas Day, 1914

by Ian McMillan

The Wind on the Downs

by Marian Allen

A Kind of Quickening

by Pauline Stainer

Trainee Priest at Rochuskapelle

by Richard Scott

How to Make Love to a Dying Rican

by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran

What We Have

by Warsan Shire

Secret

by Katie Hale

Headway

by Dorothea Smartt

An Elegy for the Sonnet as Instrument of Torture

by Sophie Mayer

Reggae Story

by Hannah Lowe

Half-Ghazal

by Edward Doegar

The Arrow Maker

by D.M. Black

The Tailor’s Three Sons

by Mara Bergman

At Hajj

by Amaan Hyder

The Doll’s House

by Patience Agbabi

Chocolates for Colonel Gaddafi

by Miranda Yates

from Vrouz: To meet your soulmate without paying afterwards

by Valérie Rouzeau

The Iridescent Conversation Piece

by Selima Hill

It’s What Happens, Sometimes, in October

by Angel Gonzalez

Unpacking a Library

by David Wheatley

Extra

by Jennie Feldman

A Blaze becomes Fire

by Valeria Ferraro

from Aftermath: Battle of Plataea (Out of Herodotus)

by A.E. Stallings

The Bemusement Arcade

by Sam Willetts

The War Reporter Paul Watson Lost His Camera

by Dan O’Brien

The Apology

by Claire Crowther

Clay

by Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Referendum on Living

by Dai George

Xanax

by Matthew Dickman

Long Division

by Matthew Dickman

Extract from Notes from Dialysis

by Hugo Williams

Undress

by Ruby Robinson

Gerard Manley Hopkins

by Leontia Flynn

Scenes from The Passion: The First Path

by Liz Berry

Lethal Roy

by Helen Mort

Ant

by Matthew Francis

Party

by Kim Addonizio

The Recurrency of Peter Body

by Sarah Roby

Fielder

by Zaffar Kunial

Testing & Bottling

by Sean Borodale

The Slim Man

by Rachael Allen

The Early City

by Paul Henry

The Scattering

by Alan Gillis

Stray Dogs

by Sarah Howe

the castle

by Jan Wagner

Messenger

by Sarah Westcott

Colmcille on Exile

by Paul Muldoon

Growing a Bear

by Hannah Gamble

String Theory

by Mary Peelen

The Rûm District

by Ian Duhig

He wrote

by David Hart

Six Hen Pheasants in My Garden Last Tuesday

by Helen Farish

from A Certain Chinese Encyclopaedia

by Sarah Howe

Order

by Gerry Cambridge

From Alun Lewis

by Declan Ryan

from Natural History

by A.B. Jackson

Pit Ponies

by Paul Batchelor

Cities

by Lorraine Mariner

Boom!

by Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Miss Jenkins

by Julia Copus

The Ghosting Of Paul Celan

by Christopher Middleton

Wallets

by Tom Warner

Neighbouring Sounds

by Ghassan Zaqtan

The Coin

by Christopher Reid

Sweetness, some cloudlessness, some shapes…

by Ian Pindar

Chorus

by Sharon Morris

Experience

by Kathryn Simmonds

Portrait Of A Small Bird On A Tree Of Twelve Metres

by Karen McCarthy Woolf

The Galilean Moons

by Kathleen Jamie

First

by Marianne Boruch

Penitential Psalm

by Toby Martinez de las Rivas

Modest Acts Of Extreme Slowness

by Selima Hill

The Gnats

by Christopher Middleton

Unfinished Business

by Patience Agbabi

Hassle

by David Morley

Come To Where I’m From

by Glyn Maxwell

Sue Speaks To Me In The Swan Room

by Malika Booker

Bad New Government

by Emily Berry

Hello London

by Ahren Warner

The Thirteen O’Clock News

by Daljit Nagra

Requisition at Abinger

by Claire Crowther

Azurite

by Jamie McKendrick

The Swarm

by Mimi Khalvati

Six Bee Poems

by Jo Shapcott

Yellow Iris

by Janet Kofi-Tsekpo

The Wilton Diptych

by Janet Kofi-Tsekpo

from Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling

by Carole Satyamurti 1939-2019

The Seventh Year

by Penelope Shuttle

Macedonia 1987

by Wendy Cope

Night

by David Harsent

The Dactyls

by Vladislav Khodasevich

Jonah’s prayer

by Aviva Dautch

from Postcards

by George Szirtes

Jericho Shandy

by Ian Duhig

Revenue Choir

by Dennis O’Driscoll

Brodsky At The Caffé Dante

by Alfred Corn

After You Died

by Deryn Rees-Jones

Borrowed Time

by Ruth Fainlight

Letter to a Portuguese Cosmologist

by Ruth Padel

Up At A Villa

by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Red Wine Is Fined By Adding Broken Eggshells

by Jane Hirshfield

Like A Heatwave Burning

by John Stammers

How I’ll Decorate My Tree

by Liz Lochhead

In My Craft or Sullen Art

by Dylan Thomas

Raptors

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In the National Palace Museum, Taiwan

by Sarah Wardle

Chill

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Visitation

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Tuesday At Wetherspoons

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Leaving Abyssinia

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from calling a spade a spade

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MIG-21 Raids at Shegontola

by Mir Mahfuz Ali

The Ice Factory

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The Surrealists’ Summer Convention Came to Our City

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Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen

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