Emily Berry
EMILY BERRY is the author of Stranger, Baby (2017) and Dear Boy (2013), both from Faber & Faber. She edits The Poetry Review. poems
United Kingdom
Robert Dunsdon
ROBERT DUNSDON lives near Oxford in the UK. His poetry and reviews have been widely published in both the UK and America.
Things That Were Hidden
“of things never told before / of Chaos and Time and the Night.” | Neil Philip
The Cycle of “Bomb”
“the war will be over in six days at most. /No reason the world should take longer /to destroy than to create” | by Neil Philip, Kijima Hajime, and Margaret Mitsutani
Idbury Morris
“Each footstep in the claggy soil pulls the / booted foot half out of his hip socket.” | by Neil Philip
In Loki’s Cave
“How can I withstand / the convulsions of my memory?”
Arthur Kayzakian
Photo by Andy Smith ARTHUR KAYZAKIAN is the winner of the 2021 inaugural Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series for his collection, The Book of Redacted Paintings, which was also selected as a finalist for the 2021 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. He is the recipient of the 2023 creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment …
Winter
by John Burnside: Imagine I loved you still and nights like these / were visitations,
Larksong
by Douglas Dunn: A laverock in its house of air is singing / May morning, May morning, and its trills drift
The River
by John Glenday: This is the formula for the fall of things: / we come to a river we always knew we’d have to cross.
the year’s tree
“…her movement / when the sun starts to turn round / tiny song of unfolding” | by Aonghas MacNeacail
The Bridge over the Border
Here, I should surely think of home – my country and the neat steep town where I grew up: its banks of cloud, the winds and changing, stagey light, its bouts of surly, freezing rain, or failing that, the time the train stuck here half an hour. It was hot, for once. The engine seemed …
Claire Cox
Born in Hong Kong, CLAIRE COX now lives and works in the UK. She is currently a part-time practice-based research student at Royal Holloway, University of London studying poetry and disaster. She was one of the three winning poets featured in Primers: Volume Five (Nine Arches Press, 2020), and has also won the 2020 Wigtown …
Aonghas MacNeacail
Poetry International 20/21
“the year’s tree”
John Glenday
Poetry International 20/21
“The River”
Douglas Dunn
Poetry International 20/21
“Larksong”
John Burnside
Poetry International 20/21
“Winter”
Kate Clanchy
Poetry International 20/21
“The Bridge over the Border”