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Walking Off by

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May 2014, no. 361
'Walking Off', a new poem by Fleur Adcock

Take the Dasslers, for example: even with
a buggy and two horses they were walking –
leaving it all, turning their backs, quitting

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The Least Feigning by

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May 2014, no. 361
'The Least Feigning', a new poem by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

What you say
about poetry
could very well
be stone-
cold factual

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The Philosphy Exam by

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May 2014, no. 361
'The Philosophy Exam', a new poem by Kevin Brophy

Now you have seen the elephant and heard
from an ex-student who blogs an elegy
to his lost left leg (his transfemoral amputation),
and a friend (you visit him in emergency)

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2014 Porter Prize Shortlist

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May 2014, no. 361

The Peter Porter Poetry Prize – now open to all poets writing in English – is one of our most prestigious prizes of its kind. Read this year’s four shortlisted poems.

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Reading the Greek Myths by Judith Bishop

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April 2014, no. 360

You are seething; I am worried.
We have read the Greek myths.

This anger of yours feels like
a distant thunderclap

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Camellias by Brendan Ryan

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April 2014, no. 360

I take a straw broom to the damp leaves on the side path.
The concrete pavers are stained and dirty as they have been
for much of the year. Stooping allows me to see

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The Presence at Drake Court by Will Eaves

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April 2014, no. 360

What’s missing from this floor?
The furniture, but also the reason

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'Of Ash', a new poem by Kate Middleton

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April 2014, no. 360

Cento after Peter Steele

Is this not running wild?
Silk-white ashes of dream and film
nerve into drama −
into darkness and its minotaur

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'Comatos and Lacon', a new poem by John Kinsella

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March 2014, no. 359

How likely is it that the fellas who have
moved onto a place down the loop, who
are bricking their crossover, are named
Comatos and Lacon? That they have

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'Mostly water', a new poem by Bonny Cassidy

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March 2014, no. 359

In winter the garden
like the back of our mind

a faint young sun.

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