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Not Averse
Anonymous,
BURR (or Brrrrr)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
In Defence of Evolution
AZB,
Apple Sunday
Dear Alan
Dimming
Sidings
Silence
Skins
Tridente, 10th September
Barker-Benfield, Ben
[Walcott begins Omeros]
Beaumont, Esmé
[artificial sandalwood, full moon]
Did you bury her yet?
[I am almost 25 years old]
I’ve listened to too much Midwest emo and now I can’t remember how to write poems
[time rolls up like a woodlouse]
Boulanger, Léo
Ode to a map of the world
[She points to the sky]
Brain, Chris
Whales sing because they have a song
Camp, Harry
Crummock Water
Riddle
Chougule, Aashi
The Last Kaua‘i ‘ō‘ō
Whales sing because they have a song
Clements, Richard
Three gay rituals
Connolly, Andy
looking
Poem: Debris
rehabilitation
why i’m getting into Christmas
Cowperthwaite, George
Exam
Imposter
Crawford, Olivia
[Untitled]
Crothers, Adam
Chocolate Sonnet
Clearing
Cockatrice
Joy Ride
O Valentine
Over Easy
Sijo
The Failing of the Cheese
Wednesday
Wooden
Davies, Jessica
[Hidden behind the candyfloss burps]
Davies, Sophie
Foregrounded
The Tree of Wisdom
Dearden-Williams, Elizabeth
Crossing
Elliott, Felix
Same but differenT
Farrar, Robin Crag
Envoy
The chicken and the egg
[Your eyes are filled with wonder]
Favarato, Laurie
Hold
Fereday, Megan
luc bat to mr. beam
Forwood, Laura
[If you ask the worm]
It ends like:
Osedax
The Last Kaua‘i ‘ō‘ō
Garrigan-Mattar, Sinéad
[He’s sound]
Leaves
Leviathan
No Salvage
No Such Signs
Post-it Notes
(R)evolution: Easter Rising
Stone, Paper, Scissors
The Dead Letter Office closes down
The Flower
‘War is not nice’—Barbara Bush
Goryn, Tony
La Belle Dame
This Boy’s in Love—Section C Part 2b (i-ixx)
Greenstreet, Hannah
Poems on the Underground
Saudade Aubade
Urban bird watching
Gremlin, S Robertson and A
Ebb tide
Guite, Malcolm
[A Farewell Kiss]
A Token
An Easter Triolet
Cheese is the medium
Is it a memory?
March-Wind
O Oriens
Poets in Age
Revelry
Singing Bowl
Spell
String-Theory
The Cutting Edge
The Daily Planet
The Green Man, Mid-Winter
The Magic Apple Tree
Hardy, Eleanor
A Hymn to a Loved One
Bridge
Bright, Pale Yellow
Jonathan’s Deathbed
Sestina to an English Teacher
Harris, India
[I often think of that January morning]
[So the moon was there]
[Somewhere on the mantelpiece inside your house]
The Scientist
Hawkes, Jemimah
Human Pound
Hewitt, Seán
In a charity shop
[The sash rattles up]
Wild Mountain Thyme
Hitchcock, Jack
After the Rise
Patrimony
Holmes, Helen
Fibbonacci
Jane
Renewal
Houlton, Tom
Bearded Thoughts
[For A Long Time She Stands There]
[Hot]
[My face is old now]
[So snow falls outside]
[The sun flattened]
yew needs dried blood in spring
Houston, Kate
A Void
Falling Is Like This
I’ll never work for Hallmark
Reflections
Should
Snapshot Endings
The Notes You Have Left
The Other Side of the Line
Urban Warfare
Vicious or Virtuous?
Writing to explore
Irvine, Heather Skye
How’d we get here? (Jazz club)
Molossus
Jeffs, Amy
[In my Grandmother’s homeland]
Kader, Yaseen
[And, hey, maybe if I continue to sing]
Cycling Home on a Winter Evening
Double Dactyls
“In Nature There Are Few Sharp Lines”
[Maybe it’s just the latent sign]
Three Pieces of Advice
Katz Feigis, Irit
This is where
Kennedy, Malcolm
[Five minutes after our hearts stop]
Knowler, Rachel
[A spinning spider]
Reinforced
KV,
Mosquito nights
Limb, Lottie
Flash News
Phonecall
Pontius
Lindsey, Hannah
Aubade to Girton
Fairy Tale
Hail, Holy Houston: A Discourse on the Anxiety of Mechanised Racial Profiling
Macedo, Damien
[The world moves the same]
Max, Pat
Microgynon
Mc Ivor, Breanne
A Regrettably Cheesy Discourse
Apathy
La Trinitaria
Nέμεσις
Poker face
The Mango Tree
Unmaking
Moller, Freddie
Catalogue d’Oiseaux:
How and Why I Should Have Looked You in the Eyes:
Moxham, Oliver
Call of the Fae
Greasy spoons
Nayak, Sid
Caged
What we leave behind
Nazeer, Rahan
Café oh late
Frighteningly Inert
Loose Ghazal for Rumi
[Red-hot and tear-kissed]
’Tis pity he’s a bore
Nickerson, Anna
A Song for the Planting of Fruit Trees
[A still life, with ceramic vase]
[At the coinciding point of the years]
Delphi
Furcula
Lemon Pie in Zaïre
[No point, she said]
Sixteen Forty-Five
[The room was plainness and preparedness]
[the typist puts her knickers on]
[They saw him walking in the meadow]
Ozbay, Imre
A Tribute to AQOH
Pett, Sarah
Acapulco
Decomposed on Westminster Bridge, January 3, 2002
For A.
Philae
The Box
Phillips, David
From Trebetherick Point
He who made the Lamb
I could never be (ready)
l’esprit d’escalier
tusk! tusk! tusk! tusk! tusk!
we’re not in Kansas, anymore
Who am I, Bernard?
Pryor, Graydon
Fall for————
Home, with you
Shit, we’ve missed our stop.
Ragozzino, Giorgio
“A Nasty Piece of Work”
THE MAN
Rainsford, Clare
Hollow Way
Martha
Signature Flaw
Song
Reddick, Yvonne
Centaur
Firedrake
On nature
Thirteen Lines
Redwood, Ben
[Oh work]
Roat, Verity
Autumn
Robertson, Stephen
A trifle
Another day
Anticipation
Black September
Cape Cod Morning
Daydream Dale Journey
Destination
Don’t count your chickens
Epicycle
Fire
Interval
Limerick
Pushing 60
Reflections
The well of love
There must be moonshine
Troubled waters
Voices
Walking in winter
Wells in winter
Searle, Maddy
Before Christmas
Buffy
Crushed
Fatherland
Pimm’s
Temple
Semple, Mollie
Wicker Chair
Sparks, Peter
A Room of Her Own
Between Life and Death
Compass Reading
Credit in the city
Cretan Quartet—a blame game
Déjeuner
Exam Room Villanelle
Fibbing
Gaza Sequence
Hermione
Just a Small Fish
Nil Charge / Nil Return
Sestina
Small Particles in the Small Hours
Splitting
The Christmas Dolls’ House
Things a man should know
Three Ways of Walking
Wednesday Evening
Wormholes
Steele, Theo
[What have we done]
Taylor, Grace
A Woman Fallen
Vuaran, Mark
Diorama
Fugue by water
Hercules et Oracle
Here be dragons
In search of
leaves might fall
Pallium
Wandlebury Hill
Wagstaff, Georgia
[cyclamen in purple bursts kiss compost]
Waszkiewicz, Radost
[Ambient objects surrounded me]
Breakfast
Weekes, Francesca
Nightwatching
Outside E5, Girton College
Weppel, Simon
Magnetic Mountain
Williams, Abi
Drink and be merry
HOW CAN I TELL YOU WHAT IT FEELS LIKE
[I have tried]
[I whispered my name into the trees]
the windmill’s lament—a short play
Zhang, Henry
A Translation of Wallace Stevens’s ‘Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction’, section 1: ‘It Must be Abstract’