Letter to a Young Poet, by George Szirtes
Introduction to the English as an Additional Language Poetry Special Feature
by Poetry Editors Marina Dora Martino & Helena Fornells
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Livia Franchini
‘Best Practice’, ‘A Balcony’, & ‘Smart Fridge’
Dan Gutstein
‘In the Twilight, in the Twilight Corrupted by Indifferent Lumens’
Alycia Pirmohamed
I Love the Alien Foliage: On How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil
Catherine Eunson
‘This Winter’ & ‘Freude’
JinJin Xu
‘Showing My Mother a Censored Film She Cannot Unsee, in Three Acts’
Gnaomi Siemens
‘To Our Sister, Lately of Pittsburgh’
Marco Yan
‘Sentinel’
Andrew Neilson
on Robert Selby’s The Coming-Down Time
Anne-Laure Coxam
‘an inner revolution hidden behind half a revolution’ & ‘What the flock?’
Ricky Monahan Brown
‘Dùn Èideann’
Shane McCrae
‘The Beginning of Time’ & ‘Last Sonnet for My Son, 2014’
L Kiew
‘The Conservator’
Joseph Fasano
‘The Middle of the Way’ & ‘Letter to Lorca Written on His Piano, Granada, 2019’
Dianty Ningrum
‘Western Politeness’ & ‘Two Laments’
Chad Campbell
‘Map of the Earth at Night’
Ethan Milner
on Eduardo Corral’s Guillotine
Iulia David
‘Static’ & ‘Dear Marie Kondo I’m Sorry But I’ve Already Made It Glorious’
Yvette Siegert
‘Aviar/y’ & ‘California Roll’
Jennie Hunter
‘My Old Man Didn’t Sing’
George Szirtes
‘Riding the Danube’ & ‘The Pigeons’
Miruna Fulgeanu
‘Comb Seller 19’
Jack Belloli
on John Wilkinson’s Lyric in its Times
Rachel Rankine
‘Glasgow Uni Accent’ & ‘Speak Properly’
Kostya Tsolakis
‘totality’, ‘Strange pilgrims’ & ‘Midnight in Hyde Park Rose Garden’
Julie Irigaray
‘Divine Séraphine’
Harrison Pyros
‘Surveillance and the Stars’
Hannah Star Rogers
‘In the box I forgot to tell you existed’ & ‘Geometries’
Ioannis Kalkounos
‘Synchronicity’
Pey Oh
‘Yama, King of the Dead, has a guest in Purgatory’
Agnes Hanying Ong
‘The Poor Fisherman Feels More Dignified Dying’
Jaydn DeWald
‘GRID (11)’
Isabel Galleymore
Liminal Landscapes: Pratyusha’s Bulbul Calling & Will Burns’ Country Music
Ken Babstock
“, comma”, ‘Bonavista’, & ‘Lightwell’
Lauren Delapenha
‘Fishing’
