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Adults

by Paul Farley
'I’d look up to them looming on street corners, / or down on them at night through my bedroom blinds, / crashing home from the Labour Club, mad drunk. / After a while I decided they must be unhappy.'

Permissions

by Stephen Dunn
'The veil of weather, the hopeful smell / of just-cut grass, the who-knows-what / that goes on behind closed doors'

Cantelice

by Benjamin Markovits
'When we got in my cousin said / let’s climb that hill. We had just / got in from Rome and Cantelice / twisted away from the second story / window in cobble and brick.'

I Guess You Had to Be There

Must poets lead lives full of poetic experience? Jack Underwood is skeptical
Your life might need to take place in order for you to write your poems, but your poems should never be merely a record of your life taking place.

Filters

by Joe Dunthorne
My big sister rings to say she is riding around / on the back of Richard’s motorbike and would I like to meet for a drink. / Richard is a married man. My sister is gay and I am always / dropping this in to conversation.

Curriculum Vitae

Be Pedro Lez. Translated by Donal McLaughlin
'Almost no one knows / that Ulrich Gwerder, / who, dressed as a merry shepherd, / posed in 1970 for a jazzy poster / for Tourist Information / in the city of Lucerne / was – at heart – a leftie.'

A Change of Climate

by Benjamin Markovits
'Snubbed by her cheerfulness like a loud door / how can I greet her without adjustments? / So when she’s gone I always stray / after her temperament, her air – / hoping to keep step with her in her absence.'