22 inspired Patience Agbabi responds to the poetry of Chaucer

56 selected Stevie Ronnie

Folded Codex Were We to Play like Open Hearts Stratification The Things That Come Between Us Oh I Don’t Know Now, Do I, Oh!

64 close reading Laurie Smith reviews

Michael Symmons Roberts, Andrew Philip and Marianne Burton

67 Mark Burnhope reviews

Fiona Sampson, David Shook and Keston Sutherland

70 Helen Mort reviews

Alison Brackenbury, Dan O’Brien and Emily Berry

73 Matt Merritt reviews

Jennifer Wong, Ahren Warner and Peter Hughes

45 requested Robert Montgomery chooses John

Ashbery’s So Many Lives

12 The Shaped Poem Paula Claire

34 Spatial form Mario Petrucci

53 Can it be done any other way? Victoria Bean

4 Contents

“The landscape renders” 6 A Note On Walking To

Rubha an Dùnain Luke Allan

7 For a Windmill Turbine Alec Finlay

8 And the landscape renders as u run it Sarah Davies

9 Pass the Parcel Claire Trévien

10 Helix Aspersa Anne Berkeley

11 Standing on mussel shells, looking across the river at night Susan Connolly “Schematics” 16 from Sudden Trellises Chris McCabe

18 Tomorrow/Today Alec Finlay

19 Sun Blurbs Simon Barraclough

20 Crisis = Opportunity Daniel Roy Connelly

21 ʊ Andrew Fentham “The long ruined lawn of the past” 27 Dubai Allison McVety

27 Bombazine Allison McVety

28 Tin can telephone Christopher Robley

29 Dumbo & Clyde Naomi Foyle

30 & Olivia Dawson

30 Plaza de las Americas,

Buenos Ares Tim Cresswell

31 Pietà

Matthew Paul

32 Wreckfish

Isobel Dixon

32 The Fish

Daniel Hardisty

33 The Fight Before my

Sister’s Wedding Katrina Naomi

33 The Month My Father

Died Jeri Onitskansky “What they did” 38 The Games Field Again Roberta James

38 Visiting my Singing

Teacher Nigel Pantling

38 What They Did Grant Kittrell

39 Some People Kim Moore