Volume 14, no. 2
POETRY
Penelope Shuttle
When the Year
Hospital Song
Threat Register
Nothing
Scapegoat Song
FB’s Mirror
Baron Wormser
A Visitation (1968)
from My Bands, 4. Al and the Allies
Firas Sulaiman
Translated from the Arabic by Samantha K. Sulaiman
God
D. Nurkse
Flatlands
Bridge of Voices
Fourteen Months in the Handbag Handle Factory
Les Murray
The Double Diamond
The Cartoonist
Hal Sirowitz
Choking on Candy
My Rewritten Bar Mitzvah Speech
William Shakespeare Rejects Time
The Dead Strikes Back
Andrea Cohen
Self Mailer
Basement
Self-Portrait as Fourth Fate
Chicken, Airplane, Soldier
Person as Substitute for Two People
Ripple
Coupons in the Afterlife
Self-Portrait with a Chain Saw
Three-Legged Race
Reverse Egg Hunt
The Gates of Paradise
Tim Liardet
The Interment
from Priest Skear
#5 They come up, gasping. Some rip off ...
#7 They go down. And the words ...
#9 They go down. Though a force ...
#11 They go down. The winter current ...
Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Letter from Limbo #3
Letter from Limbo #7
Marc Kaminsky
Stranded Objects
Nathan Hamilton
Gang of Malcolms
Malcolm and the Data Gods
Christopher Bursk
And all in war with Time for love of you
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see
Be not self-willed, for thou art too fair
Fairing the foul with art’s false-borrowed face
Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind
You are so strongly in my purpose bred
O call me not to justify that wrong
FEATURE: PSYCHO POETICA
Simon Barraclough
Introduction to Psycho Poetica
Matthew Welton
untitled
Dzifa Benson
The $40,000 Pill
Simon Barraclough
Being a Woman You Will
Heather Phillipson
1960s Monochrome Hollywood Paraphernalia ($47, collection only)
Roddy Lumsden
What the Shrimp Calls Its Tail, I Call Its Handle
Jane Draycott
untitled
John Stammers
Mop and Pail
Chris McCabe
untitled
Joe Dunthorne
Dear Arbogast
Luke Heeley
untitled
Isobel Dixon
Trappings
Annie Freud
The Yes and the No and the Terrible Thank You
FEATURE: POETS OF
LIVERPOOL & MANCHESTER
Chris McCabe
Poets of Liverpool and Manchester: A Cultural Background
John Ash
Glowing Embers: Paraphrases & Fictions
Smoke
Partial Explanation
In the Wake of the Day
Helen Clare
Reception
On Every Tube
Aphis rosae
Pyrrhosoma nymphula
Chris Emery
Black Flake
The Pendulum
M13LA
The Departure
Paul Farley
A Minute’s Silence
Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second
Newts
A Tunnel
Grevel Lindop
The Tattooist
Ars Poetica
Cosmos
Money
Eleanor Rees
Night River
Seams of Dust
Parkland
Walking the Avenues
Deryn Rees-Jones
Calcium
Slugs
After You Died
Shrub & Willow
Jean Sprackland
The Source
Dried Fish
Champagne Corks
Discovery
Steven Waling
Kind of Blue
Missed the Bus
The King
Surfaces May Be Slippery
Matthew Welton
An ABC of American Suicide
Got Loose and Let Some
from In-with-the-drizzle: one, three
Matt Simpson (1936-2009)
An Elegy for the Galosherman
Complicity
Michael Murphy (1965-2009)
XXX
The Man Who Walked on Water
ESSAY
Hal Sirowitz
from Talking to My Arms and Legs: Living with Parkinson’s Disease
REVIEWS
Fred Muratori
Jen Hadfield, Almanacs and Nigh-No-Place
Frank Beck
Todd Swift, poetry editor, Asking a Shadow to Dance: 35 Young British Poets for Oxfam (DVD)