Spring 2015
Spring 2015
Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British and Irish poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down "the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic," and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.
Introduction
Poetry
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Real Estate
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A Debate
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Museum (1590)
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What You Should Leave
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Predictive Text
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Nearing Warminster
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Fragment
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Motherbird
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White Lightning
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The Subconscious
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Two Birds
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Sisyphus
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Self-Portrait as a Soul
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This Is Cinerama
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Night of Echoes
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Airtime
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Secret Alphabets
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The Script of Sleep
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Down into St. Cuthbert's Swallet
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The Breathing
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Annunciation in Gray and Black
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A brief digression on the picaresque
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In Praise of Flight
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Quaaludes
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In Defense of Darkness
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Tiger, Tiger
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The Brown Hare
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Ysgol Gân y drudwns / Singing School for Starlings
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The Mothering
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Bunny
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The Lady on the Lid
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Côté coeur
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Westerns
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the most emotionally disturbing (or upsetting) thing
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Bóithre / Chaos Theory
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Out of line
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The Conclave
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A Pasture for Gazelles
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Narrative
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Revenant
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In Secret
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The Lamplighter
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"Wondrous Strange"
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Meditations on Yellow
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The Snow Queen
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A Wand of Rosewood
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My Feelings
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After Dürer
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Tobacco
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The Grain of Truth
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Stone Trees
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Heartland
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New Orleans Dithyramb
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Gas Attack
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Dispute over a Mass Grave
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Escaping Kanitu, March 1988
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from Salt
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Fish-Fight at the Basilica Cisterns
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June Dolphin
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The Case of the Inconvenient Corpse
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Costa Del Dento
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Lobo-Lobo
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Swimming Chickens
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Faulkner
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Upon Reading That Among the Twenty-five Thousand Pages of Love Letters That Passed Between Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe Over a Period of Thirty Years, He Had Once Confessed to Her How Much He Had Wanted to Photograph Her Throat
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Cavafy: Subrosa
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Midterms
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Beck
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Envoi
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All De Doo-Dah Day
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Night Steps
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Would Jane Eyre Come to the Information Desk?
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Enemy of the State
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Return of the Native
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Harmonium
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Psalm
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Fluctuations of Going
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The Trilobite
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from By Numbers
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Ode to the Eraser as Big as a Bus
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Ode While Awaiting Execution
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foghar eile / another autumn
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Thirsting
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Of Ownership
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Encounters with Dust
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Freudiana
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The Blues
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The Patternings
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The Old Professor
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Ask Aloud
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At the Checkout
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My Seventeenth-Century Girlhood
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Murmuration
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Laying the Fire
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Plume
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The Willow Forest
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World's End
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Clotho
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The Man With No Name as Vital Principle: A Ghazal
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Mama Amazonica
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Jaguar Girl
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My Wolverine
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At Peckham Rye
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Nickname
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Anthropologies
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Shoplifter of the world
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Fallujah, Basra: A Poem in Four Voices
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A Courtship
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from The Golden Abacus
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<3
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Now Is When
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Classroom Incident
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Death of a Priest
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The Dangerous Seductiveness of Rhymes
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The Plagiarist
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Some Tentative Definitions: "B"
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Her Blue Body Full of Light
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A piece of osmium about the size of a paper grocery bag weighs as much as a new car a small Honda Accord for instance...
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Maybe
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Limerence
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Atropa Belladonna
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Middle School Summer
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The leavening
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Frankenstein on Orkney
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In Passing
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Stars
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My Problem
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Grace
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Animal Inside
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The Deer
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Yes I admit that I have ate
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You know that intermingled time of night and day
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Etching, Drypoint
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How to Walk Backwards into a Black & White House
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Summer Poem #3