A selection of poems - sounded-out, with yous, helical - from Tom Betteridge's forthcoming book Dog Shades (JUST NOT, 2023)

These poems, paying notice to un-idyllic trees in urban landscapes, probe at the uneasy but productive identifications between humans and nature made possible by language. The first, about a poplar on Peckham Rye, reinscribes the site of Blake’s vision of Ezekiel in an examination of literary legacy; the second explores perception and the trouble with anthropocentric metaphor through an observation of leaves that linger around streetlights.

'Elsewhere and until' feels through and with climate grief, hatred of golf, the colour pink, e-waste, the Sublime, procrastination, and leisure.

These are extracts from a long unfinished poem about Raipur and its many offerings of postindustrial sublime.

Through Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay's 'Identification', though it may be described as a body being lost at sea—she has reverted into being a “boat”: a carrier floating in the in-between, finally free from earthly bounds and psychological deterrents. 

Drifting through the desert of "a real damn shame of a crisis," Ed Luker went to Mexico last April and found a way to push through all the bad feelings

Two meditations on the hysterics (and ironies) of faith by Priyanka Voruganti

These five units by makalani bandele linger in sonic and syntactical experiments utilising musical conversations and algorithmic contingency.

T. Person’s monumental Everscapes began, in 2020, as a collection of automatic writings set in the queue for a club. The queue is a lustrous backdrop for desire, anticipation, loss and memory.

A selection of poems from participants of a workshop held at AP Berlin

‘Digits After Orph’ is gridded atop Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus, to amplify the contrast, that sequence being one of presence (and other things), this one of absence (and other things), exploring some realities and mindsets and speculating on them.

An eviscerating poem about Imperial Chemical Industries by Dom Hale