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Oct 13, 2021 · Niina Pollari is the author of the poetry collections Path of Totality (coming from Soft Skull in 2022) and Dead Horse (Birds, LLC, 2015). Sit down, the doctor said. I lift it up and sit it on my lap. Of the blood crying out to God. a horse fly. You can rise to a level of not knowing that’s untouched by entropy. around the livin room proclaimin, magic! then spokea how it was this resurrected thing. window colours bright, though some of the words on the. It opens into the dark. to say, I say. May 14, 2024 · Gabriel Smith. Dec 14, 2020 · It’s been a great year for poetry. ‘Like any desert, I learn myself by what’s desired of me—. Just tell yourself you saved all the rabbits from getting shot by him! Something keeps pouring down outside my window. of the earth an operatic warmth unspooled. he silently passes he’s still. of leaves, each tree stood over me. of the world can be measured. buy a plant & water it. The guard barks, they unhand and cry harder, there’s no release, only. when one locust meets another. Feb 1, 2022 · She’s coming over and I know she will tell my mother everything, so I retreat from the rooms I know she’ll be in, I reverse my time. When I quit smoking, I became scared to fly. placed it on the dressing table & slept, awed, across the room, non-dreaming. Jan 31, 2019 · I fluff the pillow, I suck my thumb, and I hope that El Flaco comes. . Feb 3, 2023 · His poems and essays have appeared in the New Republic, Poets & Writers, SPAM, the TLS, and Granta. to make her come back to life as one. Oct 12, 2022 · Recent work includes Like a Tree, Walking (Manchester: Carcanet, 2021), the Poetry Book Society winter choice, and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize. fifteen-years-old, still a child, her mewling cry. Blood hit the ground I was the voice. Abruptly it became two rabbits—each one. on opposite sides of the automatic door. and dust from us. . that catches the cold weather hold. I don’t care who catches it. She is a former Young People’s Poet Laureate for London and winner of the 2019 Manchester Writing Prize. stairs with the painting of the dragonfly and berries. leaving me with this grimace. Mercifully, the door wasn’t locked. Feb 26, 2021 · life of speech, of public acts wagging. Each was like a man with his head bent, each watching and moving and making slow. Feb 16, 2021 · Pass me this hazy bit of sky. a poor little bunny. and take them home with you. exiting the gate we were already crying. sound like the flick. if you can’t do the crime. May 1, 2019 · The family. Fit & Moral. While I held each of my daughter down. ‘it’s wrong / to let delicacies, even when suspect, go untried Feb 15, 2024 · Maya C. Research on trees and silence was facilitated by a Visiting Scholarship at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and conversation with the Blackfriars community. Mar 28, 2019 · These poems are taken from Michael Earl Craig’s collection Woods and Clouds Interchangeable, published by Wave Books. A rosy sanctuary will I dress / With the wreath’d trellis of a working brain. don’t call it a dream. May 21, 2019 · past the doors to the bedrooms and down the front. cut a piece from the eyelid of a son or daughter and sew into one’s eyelids. and pass me my death. this equator this scar. Feb 22, 2022 · Dream of a Dog. I think you’re the most no-good person I’ve ever known. Dec 21, 2023 · To mark the end of the year, we have compiled our most-read poetry publications of 2023. for however long it needs. And heaven loves knives. ‘ I’m on the cliff of myself & these aren’t wings, they’re futures. Pasiphaë on Her Granddaughter, Apemosyne. His awards included the Companion of Honour for services to Literature Nov 17, 2022 · His poems and essays have appeared in the New Republic, Poets & Writers, SPAM, the TLS, and Granta. I moan to no one. ‘It was a cruelty I first tried to blame on nature, / Then on growing up, on falling off, on it being / Just an old myth. in writing the poems in The Iceland, language for writing to me was the absolutely needed poetic diction. Jan 7, 2008 · Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930 and was married to Antonia Fraser. over your body you must. Bulletin: You’re no good. slowly I saw it was the stones themselves. above a sea that’s been dead since forever, though no one knew it. –. Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, she lives in Jan 8, 2024 · Fantasia hazards a listening walk through seashells, telecommunication networks, and cosmic vibrations, to learn something new about how we sound. You are coiling up in bed like a ball of woolly times. The most normal things about me are my shoulders. What is there left. resides with you. Dec 7, 2021 · Would. Children are building their teacher a coffin. The forest is shaped like the inner part of a woman. pressing hard prayers. In the midst of the evident collapse, I’m bored. a dreaming dog does, I wish my life was in. May 28, 2014 · For me to write poems in literary language now was, against my history till then, certainly to decamp toward the rear. Mar 11, 2019 · These poems are taken from Tamás’s debut collection WITCH, out with Penned in the Margins on 20 March 2019. Grass flourishes between the words where. Nov 2, 2020 · The black is coming in from the cold, rolling up the beach walls, looking for light. next door, in the quieter light, walls are freshly coated, and. into the kissing position; hold a reasonably clean. the hole is catastrophically collapsed matter. I press myself against the blue rolled-up mat by the wall. who have rotted and who will—. he will be old / and brittle, he will give praise / for your phone calls. said smoothing her hair. I am not going. ‘I think I have a concussion,’ I said. Emily Berry is our first poet in the series, and here she talks to Rachael Allen about editing a poetry anthology while working on her own collection, and gives some advice to new writers. It happens when you feel the other parenthesis, the one at the end, as it presses your skin, wraps itself around your chest like a tightening belt. She is a writing coach, author of the award-winning Leaving India: My Family’s Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents, and editor of Out! Stories from the New Queer India. The imperial fixtures of bathtub and basin, the unremarkable generosity of space, and, outside, sunlight. I could make a flame. Rebecca Tamás is the author of the poetry collection WITCH (Penned in the Margins, 2019) and the essay collection Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman (Makina Books, 2020). She was a founding editor of The Lincoln Review and has Mar 15, 2022 · Ocean Vuong. serotonin, causing a mutual attraction. Trees layer. without reaching the bottom. Alice Coltrane’s experiments in jazz and spiritual community guide these poems that hum and glitch, that leap across space-time, landing in and reflecting the discordant music of life on earth. May 31, 2022 · close the banks & write a poem. Sep 23, 2020 · The rain has been lying to the sun again. Dec 22, 2022 · To mark the end of 2022, here are ten of our most popular poems from the last twelve months. ‘The unicorns are a technology Feb 1, 2021 · the abused dig into their past to pull out their lumps. my pothole filled with water. Together. if I said it was not an apple, but a quince, a plum, an apricot, or a fiction; if the mouth now grinding it. ‘I cannot look at you as I cannot look directly at the sun without my hand / covering my eyes’. I stand griefless in my black overcoat. Apr 7, 2014 · Kimiko Hahn. neither dove nor lamb. noses deeper into sleep, as she sighs the way. She also writes for stage and radio and her plays include Slipping, Deliverers, The Inheritors and Bit Part. He is a visiting poetry fellow at UEA developing a new community-led archive of four poets' work. apricot turns to the sun and then away; the over-wrought walnut feels accosted, falls to the black earth and pretends to sleep; Rain scatters on the obtuse tulips bulbs. my body moves along the way. in perfect symmetry with his body. a bottomless well of grief. ‘in iron lignum vitae / wind and leaves / keep memory’. ‘We were afraid to touch it – it looked cold enough / to burn us. More about the author → Jun 14, 2018 · to take a strip of hair from the back. when I woke up, I put you into the fridge. In 1994 her story, ‘Kami-sama’ which translates as ‘God’, was published to great acclaim. close my eyes try not. ‘Crushed again!’. Momtaza Mehri is an award-winning poet and essayist. ‘I continue to await / the perspective this feeling / ought to bring’. Here comes my abuser now in through the patio door. Scalar. His most recent collection of poetry, Buried Music, was published in 2015. These poems are from Jess’s newest collection, Olio, forthcoming from Wave Books on 5 April. Here we publish a suite of poems by Jo Shapcott, George Szirtes, Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy, Lavinia Greenlaw, Seamus Heaney and Don Paterson. For as long as I can remember my body was a small town nightmare. I got your wedding dress on backwards & playing air guitar on this dirt road. The scissors have cut string. But do you too, alone, ever. RA: Your poems offer surreal interpretations on normal life, and ‘The Old Fuel Jan 25, 2017 · unites great distances, yet its heart. head with a rock and the first drop of. I didn’t know where. Mar 20, 2012 · Hiromi Kawakami is one of the most celebrated Japanese writers of her generation. Happy old age is coming on bare feet, bringing with it grace and gentle words, and ways which grim youth have never known. I was carrying a rabbit. As I looked up, the sky hidden under a rain. to the hallway. handkerchief taut across them; eject. Perhaps I’m brainwashed by my own creation. each other’s hands across the table. Dec 8, 2020 · hovering at doorways, or standing, summer’s ghosts, by the curtain to my bed in the ward. beats inside us. My life, and all our lives, I said sleepily, so soft now, like the neck of a sleeping dog, I lay my hand on it, as you have lain your hand. Jan 17, 2022 · Two poems by Alycia Pirmohamed. Two Rabbits. A fallen star is no longer a star. You know the thing in the Bible God says. It will enter you if you stand there, and spend the rest of its time inside you. and what is it. one day, he tells me / you will never be afraid that he might hit you / one day. Aug 16, 2016 · Garden Physic (Granta Books, 2022) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was named a Best Poetry Book of the Year by both The Times and CBC Radio. hung. to resurrect our embattled. Flocks of surprise descend from on high. the morning pallor. May 1, 2024 · Sylvia Legris's new book of poetry is The Principle of Rapid Peering (Corsair, 2024). into the bottom. A silhouette embrace. Sep 6, 2018 · a ‘sister person’ in the room. Nov 5, 2020 · spreading in the capillaries of my jeans. Feb 8, 2024 · Five O’Clock Somewhere. Aug 20, 2018 · like snow falling. Each tied / in a careful minute to a square / of stiff oiled net Dec 14, 2020 · Jason Allen-Paisant. I am walking. wrapped the jar in newspaper. They hold. Nov 17, 2022 · His poems and essays have appeared in the New Republic, Poets & Writers, SPAM, the TLS, and Granta. Oct 6, 2017 · spasmed the boulders in the field. Out of uncertainty, openness: order is maintained. Nov 10, 2020 · A kid bends down in the water. that oft accompanies my idleness –. ‘It’s when things fail to return to normal, that finally you get it: this is normal. all synthetic fabrics; chenille, fleece, flammable. on the carpet in a power stance. Feb 22, 2019 · Walking home from the shops, the girl is clutching two small paper bags: in one there is a tube of Smarties, and a pair of small jelly hands; in the other, birthday candles. bent elbows, flat hands, a little force. Granta; 12 Addison Avenue; London W11 4QR; United Kingdom; Tel +44(0 Apr 4, 2022 · dead bird beating / its wings under his hand. by 9, sky looks like wind. Michael Earl Craig is from Dayton, Ohio, home of the gas mask and the mood ring. Dec 12, 2023 · This year, Granta invited contributors and friends of the magazine to reflect on what they read in 2023. There it is in the paper, somewhere in Holland, a good plain coffin made of many parts, and two of the children. reaches its perigee and I. It’s a swell night for a cry. With a line from States of the Body Produced by Love by Nisha Ramayya. Sounds like rain If I go to the window, it could easily turn into bullets or rabbits. I was in the waiting room. Mom, look, it’s a star! My big, sea-soaked skirt is heavy and wet. The rest just. If not for me, scarecrow thinks, the birds would eat it all, then the fog would open its mouth, the oceans, the sky, the stars, and we would be devoured by the force. hair blazing, eyes too. Mar 6, 2024 · The winner will be announced on 19th March, 2024. Before this happens I am thinking of you, so in a sense you are the true accident. a lens of water adhering to a branch. 00. I see a femininity in you continued the nag. In 2018, he won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, awarded by Carl Phillips, for his first book, The Year of Blue Water (Yale University Press 2019). ‘i feel good like a person / holding flowers on a train / feels dumb’. with the high-pitched, adolescent hum. Jul 22, 2020 · The in the however long it was. Aug 15, 2023 · Lisa Fishman’s debut fiction collection, World Naked Bike Ride, has been released on Gaspereau Press. Two new poems from Vahni Capildeo. Mar 11, 2016 · all our fates entwined. living on air sleeping in the ashes’. I visit sites of historic knowledge. their ecological light onto my human form. and put them into the front. perseverance and good gear. knife opening a boy’s palm. green-yellow apple kvetches; the lovelorn. Sep 20, 2021 · the hole is an area in space. He is the author of Woods and Clouds Interchangeable , Talkativeness , Thin Kimono , Yes, Master , Can You Relax in My House and the chapbook Apr 23, 2017 · Thirsty in the middle of the night, I get out of bed. Let’s have ringside seats. Jun 12, 2023 · Once on a time. next to us begins to cry. Through the. from which the singing of a hopeless people rises. Bulletin: You’re still no good. to the woman with the smoker’s rasp. Mark Hyatt was a Romani poet who received no formal education growing up Sep 15, 2023 · the red eye and the yellow eye are brothers. the field disappeared in the mist. He climbed back up the cliff. She’s coming over, so now I live in this bathroom, a prisoner of my father’s house pretending to heave a huge shit, pretending to be in pain May 22, 2023 · Maya C. a six-foot swatcha cheesecloth from my gullet. – John Keats, Ode to Psyche. ‘Little snips / of gut or word. ‘I want the poem to destroy time. But Evelyn, whatever counts me truly among the living. Crossing the Threshold. 86 | Natalie Shapero. Sep 9, 2020 · Ian Seed. Enter the next room. feel incompetent? If in one hand holding. Popa is the author of Wound is the Origin of Wonder (forthcoming from Picador in June 2023) and American Faith, winner of the 2020 North American Book Prize. ‘each listed item / here desires liquid, lips; / lights prunted below looped eyes. Her second collection, Really Not Really, is forthcoming in October 2023 with Broken Sleep Books. Fine Art. Someone has to take the hit, honey. on the hot, yellow pavement. Jul 16, 2020 · a poem about Indra’s balls. and I’m alone, puffing off dust. Starlings and bees. What are you looking at. Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, she lives in Dec 5, 2022 · Michael Bazzett is the author of four collections of poetry. Green water. that turns the volume of crickets and waterfalls. Her pamphlet, Dear Life, was the winner of the 2021 PBS pamphlet competition. My book of the year is Mark Hyatt’s So Much For life, beautifully introduced and edited by Sam Ladkin and Luke Roberts, and published by Nightboat. S’all right, s’all right. Happiness. ’. You must pause first, the way one must always pause before a great endeavor, if only to take a good breath. stillness again. He co-leads the Southbank Poetry Collective and works in extra care homes in Tower Hamlets as an activity worker. *. The recipient of fellowships from Asian American Writers Workshop and Poets House, his recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in LA Review of Books, Poetry and Jun 2, 2021 · Granta magazine is run by the Granta Trust (charity number 1184638) The copyright to all contents of this site is held either by Granta or by the individual authors, and none of the material may be used elsewhere without written permission. Then, in 2011, in the aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and subsequent meltdowns at Fukushima’s nuclear power plants, Kawakami rewrote her story. ‘Moving Nowhere Here’ by Kimberly Campanello. She is a distinguished professor in the MFA programme in creative writing and literary translation at Queens College, City University of New York. the disks rotate in a vortex around the black hole and get god-awful hot. I taste my mouth the most &, let me tell ya, what a blessing. There was a chair, and another chair, and a hydraulic doctor bed. That’s KO with me. White water. to feel the moment I begin. you could give the kiss of death, anyone can. to give me the line I thought would. at me go, how marvellously happy I am! Trees, Breeze and Rabbits. My mother stares. burn a candle. There were two of our daughter. in small gestures. when you fell, warm, into my hand I put you into a jar. in a vivid hiss heard only by your bones. or like a set I can still celebrate the lumps of life the moon is beautiful. All of them. She is also the translator of Tytti Heikkinen's collection The Warmth of the Taxidermied Animal (Action Books, 2013). Fill the mouth with smoke; put the lips. its rear window: a shrinking rectangle. Jan 15, 2015 · Minal Hajratwala’s latest book is Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment, published by The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. And that’s where you’d find me. Beautiful Short Loser | Ocean Vuong. Count the moments when I wish to say Oh yeah but I’m too puny, Count the times when I allow my anger to deluge, Count the number of awake, asleep people, Or compatriots in limbo. back into it. Richard and I Play with the Dead. stained glass feel stern. These poems appear in Grenade in Mouth: Some Poems of Miyó Vestrini, edited by Faride Mereb, and translated from the Spanish by Cassandra Gillig and Anne Boyer. Jul 17, 2012 · Titian’s interpretations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses prompted a new collection of poems inspired by these arresting mythological scenes. There’s a deeper intelligence than that. next, i tugged on a hidden catgut string. with mettle on stone. It had stopped raining! Despite my wakefulness that night. Quickly in the light that increases the light. on the phone. is carry a pair of little scissors, snip small pieces of the world. with patience for the breeze. down in the dirt. Mar 8, 2022 · Granta magazine is run by the Granta Trust (charity number 1184638) The copyright to all contents of this site is held either by Granta or by the individual authors, and none of the material may be used elsewhere without written permission. On these nights my gratitude. Her work is anthologized in Best American Experimental Poetry (Omnidawn), The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity Jul 12, 2018 · That’s what’s so wonderful. in sleep I am naked. in the cross-winds of a feeling, too wild. Jun 6, 2023 · Flame. the desire I’ve nowhere else. the expiration of my desire. I am half radish myself. golden periapts got loosed from her throat. Mary Ruefle is the author of Trances of the Blast and Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected May 24, 2022 · Two poems by Collin Callahan. and I am demoned by those desires. In the gap stands. I went out for a crawl. I switch the light on & drink a glass of water, ‘Gulp, gulp. Aug 24, 2022 · two photons kept unobserved through the double-slit. grabs something, throws it up in the sky, shouts. talking to the aerial photograph interpreter, except that it’s me who’s running, just look. greedy fer my own derangement, i pulled. of my head pull out each follicle. about the clawed opening of dawn. I never told anyone that I’m a coward and can’t. drying out, sticky. Far from the arctic city of Norilsk. lies on the green. hanging on the back of the door. Jun 1, 2018 · scissors . Tongue of the World. The above is an excerpt from Surge by Jay Bernard, published by Chatto & Windus, £10. As they reach the house, the door gets sucked. The woman working out by the bench, mid-lunge turns away, the man grunting through pull ups on the climbing frame closes his eyes. when I lay listening. Apr 16, 2019 · in the golden needles of the grasses: I stand with the dead. The book is published in March by Kenning Editions . somewhere safe I gnaw the day until you’re home. In the belfry I can make out a rope, a ladder. Apr 13, 2021 · of amethyst and jasper, Saturnine. His green sick gushing out like water from a busted hydrant. ‘Compassion’ and ‘Urine Season’, two poems by Niina Pollari. the apple be concerned. Up Late | Nick Laird. still the bison stood animal earth invisible. Bathe in the dust. When the salt set sail from the salt-cellar. of a lizard’s tongue, then like a human. The voice of thy brother’s blood crieth. Apr 6, 2020 · Dumb as a rug we let her root about the back teeth like some unseemly cat. cut a piece of a young female arse and add to an older male arse. i let summer take over the house. a space I’ve shaped to hold. The skyline is a hairless dog. for victory, then mercy, then dug into the Earth. on mine (on my life), this tenderly, as the dog. Dec 23, 2022 · Fee Griffin is a writer from the east coast of England. The man vomiting in the park has only the tree to lean on. To mark another year of the ‘new normal’, here are ten of our most popular poems from 2021, from elegies to abusive moons and hidden histories. From these scissors come my fragments. through tunnel of my girl mouth. Granta; 12 Addison Avenue; London W11 4QR; United Kingdom; Tel +44(0 Apr 24, 2023 · Dress for success. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John Jul 6, 2017 · is instructive—. After Valmiki’s Ramayana: Bālakanda, Sargas 47-8; the phrase in quotes is a condensation from Arshia Sattar’s abridged translation of Valmiki (Penguin, 2006 / HarperCollins 2019) Ahalya. Surge has Feb 26, 2024 · Granta magazine is run by the Granta Trust (charity number 1184638) The copyright to all contents of this site is held either by Granta or by the individual authors, and none of the material may be used elsewhere without written permission. and listen to it purring. What are the ceremonies of forgetting?’. Even with twelve pleats, it can’t carry shit. The young cobbler who is me crawled on. ‘I swelter in the dusk / and chase the flies, abstractedly, / until I half forget them. Down there, among some thirty-three headstones. that makes me want to call it that. to write it out how the velcro parts. In the blowy wet distance a yew, shivering. ‘Most of us these days are dead or on autopilot / As for the wolves Jun 1, 2015 · You haven’t even begun. and a horse across the road said to me. were not a mouth but. beyond the ebb of sexuality. I came back often, year on year, kneeling and being knelt for. Jul 1, 2010 · Rowan Ricardo Phillips. Nov 3, 2020 · I shot a hunter, took the rabbit he killed. Half-asleep, maybe half-delusional, you whimper, ‘Switch the light off. Pass me this pit in the earth. the Gaffer, his red. Implodes. Jun 11, 2015 · I keep expecting to see a nosebleed. Sep 8, 2023 · Phoebe Power is the author of Book of Days, a book-length poem about the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage; and Shrines of Upper Austria, winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, both published by Carcanet. Moving Nowhere Here | Kimberly Campanello. of me unstuck themselves. cut a piece from a lip and put in a secret place on the body where few will find it Jan 9, 2017 · Like a Tree, Walking A Happiness. Oct 19, 2022 · Clouds are intangible and hollowed. There are days like this. Some say the best thing you can do. lives lived just as her own: pounded into memory. Oct 10, 2019 · Crispin Best. Her other collections include The Hideous Hidden, Pneumatic Antiphonal, and Nerve Squall, which was winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. sensing an army nearby. as if the horse had not spake. ‘You divide space you think time occupies, not motion itself. Woodwork. I could never kill. She holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, on the role of wonder in poetry. like fingers laced in prayer. Jan 16, 2023 · Moving Nowhere Here. You’ve been warned. Her seven books of poetry include Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition (Wave Books, 2020) and 24 Pages and other poems (Wave, 2015). Rachael Allen. half the size of the original. He has published over twenty books of poetry. that had come alive. Garden Physic (Granta Books, 2022) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was named a Best Poetry Book of the Year by both The Times and CBC Radio. Not on the bed, he said. His translations of Vittorio Sereni and Ungaretti have also won great acclaim. her tongue and licked my head. He was the author of twenty-nine plays, twenty-one screenplays and directed twenty-seven theatre productions, including James Joyce’s Exiles, David Mamet’s Oleanna and seven plays by Simon Gray. Sep 14, 2022 · in loving. black. She lives in York. you are not that, i repeat / twisting away from the light / i know, he says /. Top Reads 2021 | Poetry. Gary Indiana on growing older. bison. Jack Underwood’s Happiness was published by Faber & Faber in 2015. Her other collections include The Hideous Hidden, Pneumatic Antiphonal, and Nerve Squall, which was winner From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalists, Granta publishes the best new literary writing and art. on the back of the skull together. Popa. Yet he had to make the ‘self-humiliating retreat’ out of psychological necessity, Hagiwara pleaded. first thing at dawn. He is a visiting poetry fellow at UEA developing a new community-led archive of four poets’ work. asking whatitwas whatitwas whatitwas. That womanliness which manifests in the faces of men on their deathbeds. My low voice and short hair return to drawers and dark corners. Stand back, I’m a loser on a winning streak. on getting somewhere safely; and when I get to. the nervous system releases. so if the feeling. one knee on the ledge, neck turned around to face her voice. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Threepenny Review , The Sun , The Nation , and Poetry Ireland . More about the author → Jun 20, 2011 · Yesterday we began a new feature to showcase Granta’s New Poets. Reverse Eurydice. I am charging the ghost. our faces. The casino doors are guillotines. make me happy and stitch the skin. now life lumps are gone. You rise to a realization beyond decay. laboured sighs. For reprint enquiries, contact us. You can also listen to Jo Shapcott and George Szirtes read Oct 6, 2022 · the curtains in or an arm. I’m afraid I’m going to have to accept that free ticket out of town. Ran 30 minutes from Fife Ness, all nets shot. in the permafrost zone: The angry. Apr 18, 2023 · Two poems by Raymond Antrobus. I sat down. Her debut poetry collection, For Work/For TV, was published in 2020 by Versal Editions and won the inaugural Amsterdam Open Book Prize. neither agent nor executioner. Nov 9, 2021 · when we hear a gull we hear the girl. came it could. Maya C. I sat on a chair. When you’re not here I concentrate. begins with shouting. Two poems by Radna Fabias translated by David Colmer. Jul 28, 2020 · Emmalea Russo. their dutiful tails. when a large branch topples down on me. Damaged, he fell through mountains to find her. and my husband wanted to kill both of them. though it’s about Ahalya ‘invisible. my husband wielded the knife, blood on both. a gravity grave. the hole is black. Four poems from Peter Robinson for Granta 2. Her writing has featured in the Guardian, POETRY, Granta, Wasafiri, Bidoun, The White Review and on BBC Radio 4. Apr 27, 2021 · first green of spring, eyes overflowing. on the kitchen garden, like kids who swim. You can still breathe, but not as well. in calamitous sunshine. ‘we welcome the applicant. the red tide has left us. Here are our most popular poems from 2020: I, Minotaur | Natalie Diaz. the trees look like grandfathers laughing in the rain. which is a free thing, force. in the wind as it splits round the city walls; as we lie in our beds, she is weeping in the storm, weeping in the calm, last thing at night. browse churro stands on the boardwalk. These scissors have cut hair. Granta; 12 Addison Avenue; London W11 4QR; United Kingdom; Tel +44(0 Nov 22, 2022 · Claudine Toutoungi’s poetry collections are Two Tongues (2020), winner of the Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize 2021, and Smoothie (2017), both from Carcanet Press. your dream, dog, I think it is, and she turns. Unto me from the ground that shit. At the field’s edge, with all. Every thought is. More about the author → Jul 4, 2022 · Garden Physic (Granta Books, 2022) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was named a Best Poetry Book of the Year by both The Times and CBC Radio. Sorrow is isosceles and red goes black very. Mar 20, 2019 · Yanyi is a poet and critic. like a never-endin hanky – passed it. His verse translation of the Mayan creation epic, The Popol Vuh (Milkweed, 2018), was long-listed for the National Translation Award and named one of the best Oct 20, 2020 · heavier than the dark bird eating my heart, page after page of abandoned wings. jammed in the red starfish. all the way up, that makes baby planets and galaxies from dust. Patted the Jul 11, 2019 · Mei-mei Berssenbrugge. the hole is often surrounded by disks of matter. Kimiko Hahn is the author of nine poetry collections, including The Unbearable Heart, The Artist's Daughter, The Narrow Road to the Interior and Brain Fever, forthcoming in October. And countless unmarked plots: Eurydice. Between when Cain crushed Abel’s fore-. then the world reformed. Then I was in the examination room. red sky at night, abiding by every rule. lift to get up like the weight. ww qm az ap rv mj wt bq hg ax