Five new poems from David Hawkins

She stood at Pentire and could not get their faces and whispers and body language out of her mind. Old coots. Old owls. Lost without her.
New short fiction from poet, novelist and regular Geometer contributor David Grubb.

Concluding our Art and Politics Issue we have extracts from Adam Burbage’s long poem, Slow Train Coming. Taking as its starting point the build-up to the war in Iraq, the poem seeks by way of cut-up and more conventional means to chart the emotional and intellectual history of the period, a period in which old distinctions between right and left have dissolved, and in which positions are increasingly polarised.

As part of our Art and Politics special issue, we are pleased to present poems by Patric Cunnane and Uddipana Goswami. Both poems, in different ways, address themsleves to the consequences of political upheaval and the impact on the individual.

Welcome to our Art and Politics Issue

Issue Introduction
Editor’s introduction to the piece – we discuss the background to the issue and introduce the first pieces.blank space

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Geometer talks to Rupert Loydell, poet, painter and editor of the rather excellent Stride Magazine. A selection of new poems (‘October’s Language’) also appear in Geometer this week.

New poems from Rupert Loydell. See also our interview with Rupert that also features this week in Geometer.

New poems from Philip Gross

“What do we do in the hot weather, the boys no longer able to swim in the river? The river of rags and dead creatures and the heads of humans..”
New fiction from author and poet David Grubb – see our Q&A with the author below.

New poems from Peter Hughes