“Between Coldharbour Lane and urban myth”
Matthew Caley
Plato Rd Odes
Lookout
Late-Nite Taxi Cab [1517 – ]
Juliette Hart
A Single Returns on the Gatwick Express
Sarah Barnsley
Green Park
Lisa McMillan
London Underground
Summer Storm
Contemplating Me
Rosemary Harris
The Changeling
Nadia Al Fazil-Kareem
Two Men Selling Orchids in a Flower Shop
Things I Hear Myself Say
Annie Freud
Rare London Cheeses
The Ballad of Hunnington Herbert
Presiding Spirits: Paul Farley
from The Electric Polyolbion: the Eleventh Song
“A body can detonate”
Robert Stein
With John Keats in Soho
Going Over
Arlene Ang
Tusk
A Day, Perhaps, Like Any Other
Neetha Kunaratnam
Nine Die in Suicide Bombing
Night Watch
Ian Mullins
Deep Pockets
Fiona Monks
TV Dinners
Poetry in Practice: Martyn Crucefix on translating Rilke
“The savage and the moonkempt”
Claire Harnett
It’s am at Reading Festival
(I Blame) My Shoes
Two for One at the Carvery
Melissa Lee
Kraken
Harriet Moore
One evening in February
Jay Jeff Jones
Skylarks
Passion
Eric Paul Shaffer
Wasting Time on a Tuesday
Morning
Stephen Wilson
Anniversary
Jesse Ferguson
Quite a Pickle
Pascale Petit
Escape
Moon Moths in the Day room
Lavinia Motoc
She is a lady
Char March
The four-day wait
Teenage son eats honey
The Male Muse
Clare Pollard – The Female Poet and the Male Muse
David Boll
For Howard
Alan Buckley
Before Your Very Eyes
The Gift
Katrina Naomi
Fightback
Lunch at the Elephant and Castle
Steve Lorimer
The Troubadour, Earls Court
Gandhi’s Statue,Tavistock Square
Union Chapel, Upper Street
Guest Choice
Tim Beaumont chooses
The Way through the Woods
by Rudyard Kipling
“Chainsaw with a brain”
Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Orpheus Gets Punk’d
Bitten by Dogs
Maureen Jivani
Harry
The Torturer’s Day Off
David Gilbert
Stepping to the Wall
Unsaid
Joanna Preston
Counting My Blessings
A Host of Sparrows
Stephen Wilson
Columba Livia
Larus Argentatus
Niyi Osundare
Polygamous Moon
Ode to the Sugar Cane
Reviews
Hannah Salt
on Martyn Crucefix’s translation of Rilke’s Duino Elegies and Don Paterson’s Orpheus
David Morphet
on Paul Muldoon’s Horse Latitudes and Tom Duddy’s The Small Hours
Joe Woods
on Lawrence Sail’s Eye-Baby, Susan Utting’s Houses Without Walls and Togara Muzanenhamo’s pirit Brides
Laurie Smith
on Anne Carson’s Decreation and Jane Hirshfeld’s After
Magma Showcase: Kevin Higgins
China
Dad
Wholesale Clearance:
Everything Must Go
Social Realist Poetess Celebrates Birthday
The Country I Dreamt Up While Protesting
Chris Beckett
Seven-year-old poets
David Boll
Erin
Writer’s Blocks
Carole Bromley
Frisk Draft
Andrew James
Semi-finality Blues
Nic Rigby
The Cat Nellie, Mr Lee and Me
Keith Arthur / Magma Poetry Competition Results:
Julia Casterton
Señor Lobelinos
Dot Lubienska
By the Willows
Glenis Denley
Here We Go Again