Pratik
The Special Contemporary British Poetry issue
Edited By Yuyutsu RD Sharma
Guest Editor: Pascale Petit
The Special issue features new poems by 26 leading UK poets: Moniza Alvi, Ruth Padel, Robin Robertson, Sean O’Brien, David Constantine, Mimi Khalvati, Fiona Sampson, Alice Oswald, Daljit Nagra, Patience Agbabi, Selima Hill, Matthew Sweeney, Robert Minhinnick, Gwyneth Lewis, Les Murray, Tim Liardet, George Szirtes, Pascale Petit, John Kinsella, Polly Clark, Nick Laird, Colette Bryce, John Haynes, Carol Rumens, Penelope Shuttle, and W.N. Herbert.
Contents
Guest Editorial
Editorial
POETRY :
I. Moniza Alvi : Four Poems :
1. Island
2. Hanging
3. Not Exactly
4. Sunday
II. Ruth Padel : Five Poems :
1. Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool
2. The Forest, the Corrupt Official and a Bowl of Penis Soup
3. Surfaces
4. Pieter the Funny One
5. The Glassmakers
III. Robin Robertson : Five Poems :
1. The Park Drunk
2. Ghost of a Garden
3. Entry
4. Holding Proteus
5. Crossing the Archipelago
IV. Sean O ‘Brien : Four Poems :
1. Blue Night
2. Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright
3. Blizzard
4. Arcadia
V. David Constantine : Four Poems :
1. Frieze
2. The Woman in the House
3. Finder
4. Floor of the Ammonites
VI. Mimi Khalvati : Five Poems :
1. Water Blinks
2. Come Close
3. On a Line from Forough Farrokhzad
4. Overblown Roses
5. Ghazal
VII. Fiona Sampson : Three Poems :
1. Messiaen’s Piano
2. The Plunge
3. Night Fugue
VIII. Alice Oswald : Two Poems :
1. Dunt
2. Fragment of an Unfinished Morning
IX. Daljit Nagra : Four Poems :
1. Darling & Me!
2. Look we have Coming to Dover!
3. Digging
4. Singh Song!
X. Patience Agbabi : Two Poems :
1. The Wife of Bafa
2. Josephine Baker Finds herself
XI. Selima Hill : Three Poems :
1. Articulate Serrations
2. The Wife
3. Gentle Pressure on the Sides of Piglets
XII. Matthew Sweeney : Five Poems :
1. Moscow
2. Opera
3. The Letter
3. The Hunger Artist at Home
4. Underground
XIII. Robert Minhinnick : Three Poems :
1. The Cormorant
2. Sageflowers for Charles Saatchi
3. The Tooth
XIV. Gwyneth Lewis : Three Poems :
1. The Hedge
2. Tongue Fetishist
3. A Promising Breakthrough
XV. Les Murray : Seven Poems :
1. Cattle-hoof Hardpan
2. As Country was Slow
3. The Conversations
4. From a Tourist Journal
5. Observing the Mute Cat
6. Midi
7. Phone Canvass
XVI. Tim Liardet : Three Poems :
1. From the Blood Choir
2. The Lumhar Region
3. A Shithouse Reverie
XVII. George Szirtes : Four Poems :
1. Dust Skin Glove Bowl
2. The Old
3. The Street in Movement
4. From the Birds
XVIII. Pascale Petit : Four Poems :
1. The Treekeeper’s Tale
2. The Strait-jackets
3. The Snake House
4. What the Water gave me
XIX. John Kinsella : Three Poems :
1. Fog Topography
2. Fog Frenzy
3. Corellas : Moving Stars
XX. Polly Clark : Four Poems :
1. Yariguies Brush Finch
2. Trash
3. Beheaded
4. Bar Harbor
XXI. Nick Laird : Two Poems :
1. The Underwood No. 4
2. The Hall of Medium Harmony
XXII. Colette Bryce : Four Poems :
1. Car Wash
2. Self-Portrait (in the Dark with Cigarette)
3. A Spider
4. When I Land in Northern Ireland
XXIII. John Haynes : Three Poems :
1. Ballade of the Whiteman’s Girlfriend
2. Stones
3. From You
XXIV. Carol Rumens : Three Poems :
1. The Silk Tie
2. Personae Separatae
3. Spurn Head
XXV. Penelope Shuttle : Four Poems :
1. Gardener
2. Grownup at Last
3. Columbaire
4. The Train
XXVI. W.N. Herbert : Four Poems :
1. The Shower
2. For Bruno Schultz
3. Mist in Glen Convinth
4. Islander
Editors for the Special Issue
