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Contents Regular Features Collaboration Selected Ben Smith Inspired Jen Hadfield responds to James Goodman’s unpublished poems (and a Trump protest) Close Reading Chris Kerr reviews Emily Hasler, Giles Goodland and Jorie Graham 16 66 79 Zoë Brigley reviews Tishani Doshi, Deborah Alma and Polly Atkin 82 Maryam Hessavi reviews Stephen Sawyer, Mircea Dinescu and Tracy K. Smith 85 Matt Merritt reviews Stav Poleg, Bobby Parker and an entertainment for W.S. Graham 88 The Articles Grievous Bodily Harm 20 Karen McCarthy Woolf and Dominic Bury Landscapes with Words 31 Bill Adams On collaboration at CCI 34 John Fanshawe Migratory connections in a changing climate 45 James Pearce-Higgins 6 Eight poets get together with conservation scientists: Polly Atkin, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, John Kinsella, Kathryn Maris, Momtaza Mehri, Daljit Nagra, Jos Smith and Claudine Toutoungi. 44 The Poems I was human once 8 Ama Bolton Villanelle (Un Paisaje) 9 Leo Boix Documentary of a Lost Map 10 Hussain Ahmed Beijing Parakeets 11 David Tait Here, afterwards 12 Joanna Guthrie A Trip to Mount General in Late Winter 13 暮冬时节将军山行 Huang Fan, translated by Lei Yanni It was a great year 14 James Goodman Tipping Point 15 Ros Woolner CH4 is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 15 Cat Campbell Kim’s Game 24 Sarah Westcott Starved Wood-Sedge 24 Maya Chowdhry The Earth Catches the Whale 25 Anna Selby Flowers in the Volcano 25 Anna Selby Ego 26 Patrick Sylvain Howling Wind 26 Patrick Sylvain Harmattan 27 John Haynes Beaufort Scale for Depression 28 Rachael Mead Howling 29 Helena Lutchman Change 29 D A Prince This Weather 29 Siún Carden Epiphany Under A Tree 30 Stephen Watts Pantones for the Anthropocene 35 Matthew Griffiths Greenland Dogs No Ice 36 Nancy Campbell Sermermiut 37 Nancy Campbell substation 38 Mario Petrucci In Amber 38 Mario Petrucci
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Brent Crude Yvonne Reddick Arctic Tern Ciarán O’Rourke An eco-worrier tweets Neetha Kunaratnam Müllkinder Katharina Maria Kalinowski In Plain Sight Aysar Ghassan Chicken Legend ® 39 40 41 41 42 42 Michael Grieve At the Tide Line Sand Slips Away Beneath Your Feet 43 Teetle Clawson Tip # 5: What not to say whilst online dating 60 Helen Moore Stotterin inta Anthropocene 61 Christine De Luca Chamber Music 61 Asim Khan Snowflakes 61 Michael Grieve Neptune’s concrete crash helmet 62 Rishi Dastidar Redneck Religion: Paradise 62 Z R Ghani Theft-saving 63 Amaan Hyder The loss of birds 64 Nan Craig An Inconvenient Truth 65 Penelope Shuttle Sample Basket Red List 2318 69 Jen Hadfield Swallow 70 James Goodman Black 70 James Goodman Ganges River, Varanasi, Mudslide 71 Jan Bella Ganges River, Varanasi, Rubbish Collection 72 Jan Bella “It’s official! Drought spell doom for mango trees” 73 Maya Chowdhry For what we can hope to afford 74 Colin Hughes Río Nuevo 75 Leo Boix “What was once a dark and lifeless plantation” 76 Jemma Borg The Famine 78 Hannah Linden forecast for zygotes 78 Khairani Barokka Catharctic Polar Circle 91 Franco Sacchetti San Francisco Wolf 92 Laura Scott The Wood Thrush 93 Robert Farrell Legacy 94 Rebecca Goss That Chapter on Tree-Spotting Harry Man We Walk This Avenue of English Oak Rebecca Goss Estate Steve Kendall Up in the Woods Harry Man Insofar Sarah Gridley Diabolic Clouds Over Everything 94 95 96 96 97 97 Sarah Gridley Do not turn this page !!! 98 Roger Bloor After Walking at Low Tide from Mairangi to Campbells Bay 98 Rachel Fenton Contributors' Biographies 99 About Magma 101 Subscription Form 102 7

Brent Crude

Yvonne Reddick Arctic Tern

Ciarán O’Rourke An eco-worrier tweets

Neetha Kunaratnam Müllkinder

Katharina Maria Kalinowski In Plain Sight

Aysar Ghassan Chicken Legend ®

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Michael Grieve At the Tide Line Sand Slips Away Beneath Your Feet 43 Teetle Clawson Tip # 5: What not to say whilst online dating 60 Helen Moore Stotterin inta Anthropocene 61 Christine De Luca Chamber Music 61 Asim Khan Snowflakes 61 Michael Grieve Neptune’s concrete crash helmet 62 Rishi Dastidar Redneck Religion: Paradise 62 Z R Ghani Theft-saving 63 Amaan Hyder The loss of birds 64 Nan Craig An Inconvenient Truth 65 Penelope Shuttle

Sample Basket Red List 2318 69 Jen Hadfield Swallow 70 James Goodman Black 70 James Goodman Ganges River, Varanasi, Mudslide 71 Jan Bella Ganges River, Varanasi, Rubbish Collection 72 Jan Bella “It’s official! Drought spell doom for mango trees” 73 Maya Chowdhry For what we can hope to afford 74 Colin Hughes Río Nuevo 75 Leo Boix “What was once a dark and lifeless plantation” 76 Jemma Borg The Famine 78 Hannah Linden forecast for zygotes 78 Khairani Barokka Catharctic Polar Circle 91 Franco Sacchetti San Francisco Wolf 92 Laura Scott The Wood Thrush 93 Robert Farrell Legacy 94 Rebecca Goss

That Chapter on Tree-Spotting

Harry Man We Walk This Avenue of English Oak

Rebecca Goss Estate

Steve Kendall Up in the Woods

Harry Man Insofar

Sarah Gridley Diabolic Clouds Over Everything

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Sarah Gridley Do not turn this page !!!

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Roger Bloor After Walking at Low Tide from Mairangi to Campbells Bay 98 Rachel Fenton

Contributors' Biographies 99 About Magma 101 Subscription Form 102

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