The poem works to personalise the more abstracted ruminations on cultures of violence and domination that circulate through the collection Communicatingroups by Stu Watson.

Hatty Nestor's poems are from a longer book that explores suspended temporal states, such as chronic pain, immunity, guilt, carceral logic and economies of time, the nature of confessing, and institutional surveillance.

3 poems from Carlos Mauricio Rojas that talk about themes of migration, queer and trans existence, and multicultural heritage.

Zach's next chapter of his long poem Lymbs and Delirium is an ambient exploration of ritual & bodies; broken bodies, transmuting bodies, bodies in trance, dance and ecstasy.

After the taser shooting of Desmond Ziggy Mombeyarara, 'side with the immanent vex' is a dysorderly attempt to situate the intense register of his resistant, resounding protest in the musicality of a vexed syntax and frayed grammar.

Oral poetry creating ‘neu’ language through lived experience with ancient classical Sufi metaphysical tropes.

This poem splays the hokey kokey across an echolalic ars poetica. Don your shell and dive into a network of spatial explorations!

a poem about wanting to be outside when you have to be inside, the difference between reading and standing in a forest, and turning the page.

Rosy Carrick's super-cute and never-before-translated 1926 children's poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky.

Speculative architecture of the English seaside town. Mascots appear at the nude beach. A mini-epic in orange.

These poems are having a domesticated tantrum.

Caspar Heinemann returns to the87press with a wandering lyric in response to the 4th of July.

Bhanu Kapil's fierce lyric captures the entangled skein of white supremacy and empire; holding them in its gaze, in its teeth.