Featuring poems long listed for the Live Canon 2021 International Poetry Competition:
A Baby Speaks on his Birthday in an Autumn Garden, 2020, Josephine Corcoran
A Small House on Higher Ground, Colin Watts
After the Asylum, Chaucer Cameron
Cornish Morning, Vanessa Lampert
Bert Jarman at the Pentre, Chris Hardy
Edvard Munch in Havordfordwest, Pam Thompson
strangers again, Mary Mulholland
New Language, Vasiliki Albedo
How Much Rain Can A Cloud Hold?, Laurie Bolger
Genealogy, Ralph La Rosa
The Fish Shack, Margate, Jane Thomas
Dear Bees –, Emma Simon
You’re The Boy with a Gun in His Bedroom, Stuart Charlesworth
Doves, Isabella Mead
I’m afraid of the ghost of Egas Moniz, Jane Burn
The Shortest Day, Paul Stephenson
(Temper Of) The Swan, Brandon Bennett
260 feet, David Underdown
28 trailers, Sarah Terkaoui
Archaeology, PN Singer
Blackspot, Mary Jane Holmes
Bread, John Kefala Kerr
Crazy Mad Bastard, Tim Relf
Dark River, Mark Huband
Extinction Events, David Bleiman
Factors which Contraindicate a Diagnosis, Katharine Goda
Geneaology, Ralph La Rosa
Gravity rules, Eva Hilberg
How Much Rain Can A Cloud Hold?, Laurie Bolger
I am building Paris in my bedroom, Sue Burge
I have paid the price for eating snow, Sarah Doyle
If You’re not Scared, Tessa Foley
In an Empty Train, Antony Mair
in medias res, RHJ Baker
La Buse!, Mehran Waheed
Leaf Storm, David Butler
Mathematicians Take No Holidays, William Stephenson
News From Theia: a Fragment, Steve Xerri
Portrait of my Father as a 12th Century Confucian Sage, Ross Cogan
Putty Hill, Matt Hohner
Reclaim the streets, Hilary Otto
River Name, Kaozara Oyalowo
Small Mercies, Maeve Henry
The Birds, Sharon Black
The Daughter’s Reckoning, Eve Jackson
The Minister for Bushfire Recovery is reassigned to Floods, Anne Casey
Unbridled, Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana
Untying the Rat King, Jonathan Greenhause
water music, Gillie Robic
Yakob, you brought me an etrog to give to your mother, Sara Levy