Three new poems by Gonçalo Lamas: ‘it doesn’t get more historical materialism / than this totally meaningless same / we call same.’

From the collection Poppy, Joseph Minden’s poems incorporate text from various historical and colonial documents to interrogate British cultural memory and the constitution of whiteness

Three new poems by poet-artist Cole Denyer: ‘my pupil dilate as blink rate increases / as teeth which hang-up in gurgles’

These poems by Aaron Kent are written on the cusp of sleep, the phantasmagorical state between dream and wake, as the author battles chronic insomnia and night terrors. The surrealists saw Automatic Writing as a way to suppress conscious control of art; Kent attempts to remove conscious control over his art in the first draft, and then allow it to re-emerge as he edits the work in a fully awake state.

A new poem from Arab Surrealist Abdul Kader El-Janabi: ‘The poem is a drum / At the whim of the madmen’