Five new poems from David Hawkins

6 New Poems by Bridget Arsenault

Steve Ely is an English poet who writes about America. In doing so, he seems to interest people who wouldn’t ordinarily be all that interested in contemporary English poetry. For the interested reader, Steve’s excellent poem sequence JerUSAlem is a fine…

Three new poems from Caleb Klaces

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 issue, we are pleased to present Steve Ely’s poem sequence, The Visions of Vicki Weaver, which centres on the shooting in 1992 of white separatist Vicki Weaver during the so-called ‘Siege of Ruby Ridge’. A cause celebre amongst human rights activists, constitutionalists and the libertarian right, the incident has been cited as a motivation for the Oklahoma City bombing.

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
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Four new poems by the author and poet David Grubb

In the latest of our poet profiles Paul Holman profiles Linda Tarczynski, whose Ecteiroglyphs of the Lorwolm, a sequence of prophetic poems, was published on the internet earlier this year.