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contents regular features inspired Gillian Clarke responds to Dylan Thomas 22 selected Kate Compston 26 magma poetry competition 40 close reading Kathryn Gray reviews Ian Duhig, Claire Askew and Andy Willoughby 69 Ian McEwen reviews Barbara Cumbers, Martin Stannard and Matthew Caley 72 Pippa Little reviews Martin Figura, Anne-Marie Fyfe and Andrew Shields 76 Rob A Mackenzie reviews Lisa Matthews, Judy Brown and Adam Crothers 80 the articles The state poetry is in Will Self 19 Poetry in Che Guevara’s Revolution Jane R Rogers 29 Do we still need memorable poems? 45 Laurie Smith the poems The revolution is personal too The Terminal Waiting Room 8 Eric Paul Shaffer Sentences for the American Citizenship Examination: A Villanelle Approved by the Department of Homeland Security 9 Eric Paul Shaffer The Nagasaki Elder 10 Antony Owen Executive Electoral Elocution 10 Henrik Hoeg The New Regime 11 Simon Jackson The Tale of the Turkish Carpet 12 Jacqueline Saphra What’s New for You in 2015? 14 Jacqueline Saphra Stopping the War 15 Helena Nelson Mistress and Maid 16 Jekwu Anyaegbuna Griots 17 Cora Greenhill Khamsin on Bayswater 17 Claudine Toutongi Androids 18 Jide Salawu Last Season 34 Catriona Knapman Independence Day 35 Laura Chalar There are weeks when decades happen Scold 36 Kate Noakes Revolt 36 Kyle Cooper The Toppled Dictator’s Head is Put on Display 37 Michael Conley Stamp 38 Pnina Shinebourne And Lenin came yesterday 38 Pnina Shinebourne Old Bolshevik poet with nuthatch 39 James Sutherland Smith magma poetry competition 40 Thinking with Goya’s They Descend Quarrelling 40 Lucy Ingrams You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave 41 Maya C Popa Skiing 42 Soul Patel Weep Up 43 Maggie Smith Trajectory 43 Paul Bregazzi Succinct 44 Barbara Hickson 6
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Revolutions aren’t made; they grow The Angel of Clean 51 Patrick Maddock The Gold Trail 52 Sally Festing Overgrown 53 Jane Murray Bird Days Round like the Moon 53 Geraldine Clarkson The Aviary 54 Verity Williams Leonardo and the Birds of Clay 56 Geraldine Clarkson St Osburga’s Surprise 58 Geraldine Clarkson Some Girls Want Out 59 Tracey O’Rourke Under the paving slabs, the beach Asymmetries 60 Ivan de Monbrison Going Underground 61 Howard Wright Men on Roofs 61 Richard Toovey This Town 62 John Newton Webb Sherbrook Ouest 63 Claudine Toutongi The Lunatics 63 Claudine Toutongi Provocateur Siriol Troup 64 The dog beneath the skin Catatonia 65 Paedorists And Terrorphiles 66 Niall Bourke Loukanikos 67 Fiona Moore Circus 68 Katherine Crocker Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams Some Days I Send My Body to Work Without Me 84 Kate Dempsey How to Grow Matches 85 Sarah James Meeting the Meat 86 Angela Arnold Blinds 86 Luigi Coppola Inside Our Wardrobe 87 Ellie Danak Moving On 87 Ellie Danak Aftermath 88 Wendy Klein In dreams begin responsibilities Suddenly the Unicorns Rosamund Taylor 89 Discovering Parnassus Antony Mair Archaic smile Richard Meier Greenstick Fractures There’s Now General Agreement Paul Stephenson 90 91 92 93 Contributors’ Biographies 94 About Magma 95 Subscription Form 96 7

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Revolutions aren’t made; they grow The Angel of Clean 51 Patrick Maddock The Gold Trail 52 Sally Festing Overgrown 53 Jane Murray Bird Days Round like the Moon 53 Geraldine Clarkson The Aviary 54 Verity Williams Leonardo and the Birds of Clay 56 Geraldine Clarkson St Osburga’s Surprise 58 Geraldine Clarkson Some Girls Want Out 59 Tracey O’Rourke

Under the paving slabs, the beach Asymmetries 60 Ivan de Monbrison Going Underground 61 Howard Wright Men on Roofs 61 Richard Toovey This Town 62 John Newton Webb Sherbrook Ouest 63 Claudine Toutongi The Lunatics 63 Claudine Toutongi

Provocateur

Siriol Troup

64

The dog beneath the skin Catatonia 65 Paedorists And Terrorphiles 66 Niall Bourke Loukanikos 67 Fiona Moore Circus 68 Katherine Crocker

Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams Some Days I Send My Body to Work Without Me 84 Kate Dempsey How to Grow Matches 85 Sarah James Meeting the Meat 86 Angela Arnold Blinds 86 Luigi Coppola Inside Our Wardrobe 87 Ellie Danak Moving On 87 Ellie Danak Aftermath 88 Wendy Klein

In dreams begin responsibilities Suddenly the Unicorns

Rosamund Taylor

89

Discovering Parnassus

Antony Mair Archaic smile

Richard Meier Greenstick Fractures

There’s Now General Agreement

Paul Stephenson

90

91

92

93

Contributors’ Biographies 94 About Magma 95 Subscription Form 96

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