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The Poetry Review The Poetry Society, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX Tel: +44 (0)20 7420 9880 • Fax: +44 (0)20 7240 4818 Email: poetryreview@poetrysociety.org.uk poetrysociety.org.uk/thepoetryreview Editors: Denise Saul and W.N. Herbert Publisher: Jane Ace, Administration: Astra Papachristodoulou ISBN: 978-1-911046-39-4 ISSN: 0032 2156 Cover: Cornelia Parker, Inside, Outside, 2018 Hand embroidered on linen by prisoners in HM jails, in collaboration with Fine Cell Work © Cornelia Parker, image courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London Cover quote by Victoria Chang, from Obit (see pp.67–73) © The Poetry Review & The Poetry Society, 2022 SUBMISSIONS We welcome submissions. Guidelines available at poetrysociety.org.uk/thepoetryreview ADVERTISING To advertise in The Poetry Review, visit poetrysociety.org.uk/thepoetryreview or contact Ben Rogers on +44 (0)20 7420 9880, email: marketing@poetrysociety.org.uk BOOKSHOP DISTRIBUTION Central Books, 50 Freshwater Road, London RM8 1RX, UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 8525 8800 or visit centralbooks.com PBS OFFER TO POETRY SOCIETY MEMBERS The Poetry Book Society offers Poetry Society Members a special 10% discount (plus postage) on books bought from poetrybooks.co.uk Contact The Poetry Society: +44 (0)20 7420 9880 or membership@poetrysociety.org.uk SUBSCRIPTIONS & SALES Individuals UK: £40 / Europe: £55 Rest of the World: £60 (delivery by airmail) Single issue: £10.95 plus postage. Order online at poetrysociety.org.uk/shop Subscribe to the digital archive of The Poetry Review at exacteditions.com/thepoetryreview The Poetry Review is on sale in leading bookshops. It is also available on audio CD. The Poetry Review is the magazine of The Poetry Society and was first published in 1912. A subscription to The Poetry Review is included as part of membership of The Poetry Society. Views expressed in The Poetry Review are not necessarily those of The Poetry Society; those of individual contributors are not necessarily those of the Editors. Charity Commission No. 303334. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world’s forests. By buying products with an FSC label you are supporting the growth of responsible forest management worldwide. The Poetry Review is printed with vegetable-based inks. Surplus inks, plates and printing blankets are recycled.
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CONTENTS Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame ‘Hadraawi’ / Abdirahman Abdalla & Ibrahim Hirsi A Sky in Revolt Yang Lian / Brian Holton Touching a Set of Western Zhou Dynasty Bells in Shanghai Museum Vasyl Stus / Alan Zhukovski [‘You’re still alive. You’re at the very bottom...’] 11 Anastasia Taylor-Lind Kolychivka Brendan Constantine World’s End Jessica Kim Eomma Only Knows How to Break Things 14 Fred Voss Now I Am the Old Guy in the Machine Shop 16 Julian Stannard John Kinsella Review Pimpinella Synchronising Eaux d’artifice à la Kenneth Anger (1953) Martyn Crucefix on Ferenc Juhász, Guillaume Apollinaire, Osip Mandelstam Essay & César Vallejo Katrina Naomi, Bardhonieth yn Kernow (Poetry in Cornwall) John Wedgwood Clarke Valley of the Shadow of Tin Kaycee Hill Imogen Wade Laura Blomvall Pascale Petit Dialogue Matthew Francis Nightshift Fire safety Winter Swimming, En Plein Air Galloway Bull at the Waterhole Zoë Brigley & Jannat Ahmed on Welsh poetry 40 Nightwalk Shadow Marvin Thompson Matt Duggan Review Interview Review Laurie Bolger Maura Dooley Malika Booker Essay Rushika Wick From Top Ten Tips for Surviving a Haunting 46 What Was Putin Doing During Our Summer of Love Callan Waldron-Hall on Dean Atta, John McCullough & Lee Hyemi Denise Saul in conversation with Nii Ayikwei Parkes Stephanie Sy-Quia on Cecilia Knapp, Johny Pitts & Roger Robinson Cookie Come Home Did you know Ann Atkinson? The Virgin Mary Confesses to Her Mother 65 Libation Karen McCarthy Woolf, Journal(s) of Ordinary Grief A Ghost Mutates Through Intensity 8 10 12 13 18 20 22 26 32 33 34 35 38 44 45 48 49 53 59 63 64 66 67 74

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The Poetry Review The Poetry Society, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX

Tel: +44 (0)20 7420 9880 • Fax: +44 (0)20 7240 4818

Email: poetryreview@poetrysociety.org.uk poetrysociety.org.uk/thepoetryreview Editors: Denise Saul and W.N. Herbert Publisher: Jane Ace, Administration: Astra Papachristodoulou

ISBN: 978-1-911046-39-4 ISSN: 0032 2156 Cover: Cornelia Parker, Inside, Outside, 2018

Hand embroidered on linen by prisoners in HM jails, in collaboration with Fine Cell Work

© Cornelia Parker, image courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London

Cover quote by Victoria Chang, from Obit (see pp.67–73)

© The Poetry Review & The Poetry Society, 2022

SUBMISSIONS We welcome submissions. Guidelines available at poetrysociety.org.uk/thepoetryreview

ADVERTISING To advertise in The Poetry Review, visit poetrysociety.org.uk/thepoetryreview or contact Ben Rogers on +44 (0)20 7420 9880,

email: marketing@poetrysociety.org.uk

BOOKSHOP DISTRIBUTION Central Books, 50 Freshwater Road, London RM8 1RX, UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 8525 8800

or visit centralbooks.com

PBS OFFER TO POETRY SOCIETY MEMBERS The Poetry Book Society offers Poetry Society Members a special 10% discount (plus postage)

on books bought from poetrybooks.co.uk Contact The Poetry Society: +44 (0)20 7420 9880 or membership@poetrysociety.org.uk

SUBSCRIPTIONS & SALES Individuals UK: £40 / Europe: £55 Rest of the World: £60 (delivery by airmail)

Single issue: £10.95 plus postage. Order online at poetrysociety.org.uk/shop

Subscribe to the digital archive of The Poetry Review at exacteditions.com/thepoetryreview

The Poetry Review is on sale in leading bookshops. It is also available on audio CD.

The Poetry Review is the magazine of The Poetry Society and was first published in 1912. A subscription to The Poetry Review is included as part of membership of The Poetry Society. Views expressed in The Poetry Review are not necessarily those of The Poetry Society;

those of individual contributors are not necessarily those of the Editors.

Charity Commission No. 303334.

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world’s forests. By buying products with an FSC label you are supporting the growth of responsible forest management worldwide. The Poetry Review is printed with vegetable-based inks. Surplus inks, plates and printing blankets are recycled.

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