Kristín Ómarsdóttir

‘cut a piece from a lip and put in a secret place’ – New poetry translated from the Icelandic by Vala Thorodds.

Issue 143

Nathaniel Mackey

Will Harris

‘I must / have been the only one to catch his eye, to hold it.’

Chelsey Minnis

‘It’s dangerous like a very powerful doorbell. / Or a portrait covered with a blanket.’

Sarah V. Schweig

‘In my crumbling country every day, / people spend their lives standing in lines / to buy designer sneakers.’

Swati Rana

‘Imagine all the prodigal / People, hoping only to / Escape every human mistake.’

Amy Key

‘She is luscious / and plump like marshmallow; part edible baby, / part nosy neighbour.’

Sharmistha Mohanty

‘even more it was a wish for boundless spaces, a wish for the inexpressibly wide and broad, for the unharnessing of human life’ – New poetry by Sharmistha Mohanty.

Armand Garnet Ruffo

‘the earth will heal / eventually / magnificently / when our species / is gone’

Emily Critchley

‘to understand life / how to possibly / live in it / break it’

Dorothea Lasky

‘In this life // There is always time // To make a comeback’

Issue 142

ko ko thett

‘I rode bareback, I rode out all the revolutions.’

Tim Lilburn

‘The mountain rises and sleeps backward / into a cloud-captured sun’

Sylvia Legris

‘By the dog the minced oaths, / the god-wounds, the solemnly / declared chronical maladies.’