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The Poetr y 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 Editor: Wayne Holloway-Smith Publisher: Jane Ace Editorial Assistant: Astra Papachristodoulou ISBN: 978-1-911046-45-5 / ISSN: 0032 2156 © The Poetry Review & The Poetry Society, 2023 Cover: Alvaro Barrington, When I was just trying to feed my daughter / Coogi (2021, detail) © Alvaro Barrington, Courtesy of the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London. An unwavering commitment to community informs Barrington’s wide-ranging practice. He has said ‘When you look at my paintings, you’re encountering parts of my identity. I grew up in a culture where it was really about erasing hierarchies, where we’re all participating in cultural production.’ Cover quote by Eric Yip, see p.32 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 Poems Natalie Shapero Oh Boo Hoo 7 Black on Dark Sienna on Purple 8 Jos Charles Three Sonnets 9 Caroline Bird RSVP 12 Downer 13 Ants 14 Sanah Ahsan How do you have pleasure 17 lullaby 18 to be held 19 Dawn Watson Queen of the Sticklebacks 20 Kim Addonizio Existential Voyage 23 Self-Portrait with a Statue of Fernando Pessoa 25 Padraig Regan Four Torsos in the Fitzwilliam Museum: GR.94.1937 (Apollo Sauroktonos) 27 GR.2.1891 (Dionysos) 28 GR.18.1891 (Eros) 29 GR.1.1887 (River God) 30 Katherine Horrex F.A.O. Granada Studios 31 Eric Yip Broadway Cinematheque 32 Sarah Hesketh Sunday Father 33 Helen Mort Consequences 34 Cortney Lamar Charleston It’s Important I Remember That There Is No Universally Recognized Definition— 41 John Challis Night God 43 Cathedral 44 Charlotte Geater dissection after surgery 45 Courtney Conrad I Want to Come Back 47 Inua Ellams Unrelated Incidents. 1981 49 Jessica Traynor i’m lydia deetz and all my friends are dead 54 monstera 55 and the girl inside me 56 Tife Kusoro I keep having dreams about beating up my dad 57 Luke Kennard Fishing with the General 58 Deryn Rees-Jones Let’s Say 60 Michael Pedersen Parklife 62 Asmaa Jama sympathy for ishaq 64 Kathleen Ossip Wallace Stevens 66 Momtaza Mehri Utterances Shared Only with the Dishwater She Sinks Her Hands Into 67 At the Market, Amman 68

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The Poetr y 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

Editor: Wayne Holloway-Smith

Publisher: Jane Ace Editorial Assistant: Astra Papachristodoulou ISBN: 978-1-911046-45-5 / ISSN: 0032 2156 © The Poetry Review & The Poetry Society, 2023

Cover: Alvaro Barrington, When I was just trying to feed my daughter / Coogi (2021, detail) © Alvaro Barrington, Courtesy of the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London. An unwavering commitment to community informs Barrington’s wide-ranging practice. He has said ‘When you look at my paintings, you’re encountering parts of my identity. I grew up in a culture where it was really about erasing hierarchies, where we’re all participating in cultural production.’

Cover quote by Eric Yip, see p.32

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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