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End of the Pier Show
Michael Hofmann
‘They were fascinated / by what they seemed to have contained.’
The Joy of Difficulty
Lavinia Greenlaw
‘did you breathe differently / as if equipped with an aqualung’
17 Melbourne Road
Oliver Reynolds
‘A room at the top of the street / preserving his life in sunlight’
Somewhere the Wave
Derek Mahon
‘a voice, not quite a voice, in the sea distance / listening to its own thin cetaceous whistle’
The New Hieroglyphics
Les Murray
‘Rice in bowl with chopsticks / denotes food. Figure 1 lying prone equals other.’
Sampati
Vikram Seth
‘Why do you cry?’
Vikram Seth’s Petrarchan sonnet based on a character in the Ramayana.
Crusoe
Salman Rushdie
‘Let me tell you, boyo, bach: I love this place, where green hills shelter me from fear.’
