Contents
Regular Features Competition
Inspired
Malika Booker responds to Jean Binta Breeze and Dennis Scott
Selected
Alison Binney
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Close Reading Selina Rodrigues reviews Cecilia Knapp 91 Chloe Elliott reviews Helen Quah, 93 Michaela Coplen and Nóra Blascsók Maia Elsner reviews Nathalie Diaz, 96 Sandeep Parmar and Susannah Evans Thembe Mvula reviews Arji Manuelpillai, 99 Jay Gao and James Conor Patterson
The Articles
Rapping in My School
Assembly. Molly Naylor on how poetry comes alive
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Opening the Poetry Door – 40 Letting in the Hordes. Barbara Bleiman on how poetry teaching needs to change
Exploring a poem – one way of doing it. Laurie Smith sits in on a lesson
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Ideas for teaching/ways into 88 some of the poems
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Magma’s 2022 Open Poetry 51 Pamphlet Competition
The Poems
Power and conflict (1) A rose by any other name? 8 Marvin Thompson Monumental 9 Jane Houston Interview 10 David P. Miller Again. Routine Check. 12 Shaniqua Benjamin Forgotten Ones 13 Shaniqua Benjamin Flight 13 Eleanor J. Vale it’s 1994 & this brown girl thinks she smells like teen spirit 14 Janine Bradbury First Haircut 15 Lara Frankena Arming the flock 15 Eleanor J Vale Application Denied 16 Graham Clifford FORM DS-160: PROVIDED SECURITY QUESTION OPTIONS 17 Wen Lim
Power and conflict (2) I have a terrible secret
Harriet Truscott
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The Jaguar Escapes Leeds City Museum
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Moira Garland Remember, Joan, You’re Only a Saint After You Die 23 Lucy Fenton Speaking for herself 24 Paul Francis In The End 25 Ciara Earley You are not like them 26 Anneliese Amoah Eating Emotions 26 Janina Aza Karpinska
Time and place (1) Coastal Property
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Rhys Owain Williams Swansea Clings to the Edge 32 Rhys Owain Williams Raging Guilt 33 Andrea Shavick Five Degrees 34 Julian Bishop Villa Nil 35 Michael Greavey Caliban to Miranda 35 Aaron Lembo Between 36 Eoghan Totten Christine 37 Isabella Mead Papyrus 38 Isabella Mead
