By inviting poets to write about putting on the mask, with this issue we have ‘put on a masque’. Poems of real and imagined characters fill the issue alongside poems that use form and language to reveal their layers; you will discover a wolf, a cactus, a fish and chip shop, the city, tattoos, a sweeping brush. Poets such as Greta Stoddart, Roddy Lumsden, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, Annie Freud and others appear alongside new and emerging names. And between stints at the National Theatre, Inua Ellams responded to Keats with a new poem.
There are reviews, and there are prose articles, from Glyn Maxwell on verse theatre, Tamar Yoseloff who offers tips on writing from the imagination, and Polly Clark who explores the relationship between the poem’s and the poet’s voice.
Poems
| Rowena Somerville | That Buster Keaton moment |
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| Robert Peake | The Argument |
| Gill Andrews | Playing with fire |
| Dominic Connell | Belongings |
| Andrea Porter | Yorick Yearns for Harry Ramsden’s |
| Greta Nintzel | Gin Fizz |
Articles
| Speaking the Poem's Voice | Inside a room overlooking a loch seven poets are sweating. One of them, me, has a band of pain around… |
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