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Granta poems. ’ Two poems by Michael Bazzett. ’ Two Poems Wendy Xu ‘Somewhere in America a white boss / in a dandelion dress-shirt is raising / his voice again’ Two Poems Claudine Toutoungi Martyrs Sometimes we give them a hard time, the martyrs. ’ Scalar 1 You can rise to a level of not Two Poems Kristín Ómarsdóttir Translated by Vala Thorodds ‘cut a piece from a lip and put in a secret place’ – New poetry translated from the Icelandic by Vala Thorodds. Look at you – we shout – with your tragic backstory and your little legs and your Three Poems Miyó Vestrini Translated by Cassandra Gillig & Anne Boyer ‘It was fake that your hugs were convulsive / and your furies Two poems by Mark Waldron. ’ Two poems from Chia-Lun Chang’s debut poetry collection. Dust winds its way Two Poems Maya C. Two poems by Raymond Antrobus. we all know that. I wanted this metallic sweetness on the tongue, a gin of These poems are taken from Beautiful and Useless by Kim Min Jeong, translated from the Korean by Soeun Seo and Jake Levine, published Five Poems Irene Solà Translated by Oscar Holloway ‘I wore off my tongue / like candy’ Translated from the Catalan by Oscar Holloway. S. Jones. Mary Ruefle Mary Ruefle is the author of Trances of the Blast and Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, a finalist for the National Two Poems Emily Berry Dream of a Dog My life, and all our lives, I said sleepily, so soft now, like the neck of a sleeping dog, I lay my hand on it, as you have lain your hand on Two Poems Mei-mei Berssenbrugge ‘You divide space you think time occupies, not motion itself. Aidan gave his young priest oil to calm the waves, but myth is Two Poems James Tate ‘I wanted to go for a walk, but I was afraid / of missing a phone call. Four Poems Bill Manhire ‘There is only one of me, she says, / but we all know there are two. Two Poems Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo ‘Fingers twirl / composite stems whose colour / twist rock-candies, snake-ladders / precious yellow, less Three poems by Eric Amling DRY HEAT I finished reading all the novellas set in orphanages. ‘i think again, love, that t believe in this / would be t chapen the accident of our own gift’ Two poems by James Conor Patterson. Won’t be tamed or appeased. ’ Untitled This book about extinct birds is heavier Three Poems Vivek Narayanan ‘half-sunk / into ground for all those years / of negative subsisten­ce’ In Granta 168: Significant Other we consider the people who shape our sense of ourselves and reflect on the connections and encounters that inform a life. ‘I often see myself thrusting into soft clouds, hallucinating. The I’m a stranger but not in my poems. Un sello con una larga historia: fundado en 1889 por estudiante Sylvia Legris Sylvia Legris's new book of poetry is The Principle of Rapid Peering (Corsair, 2024). Popa All That Is Made The trees were on the verge of rebirth so sudden you’d miss it from one day to the next, would be suddenly alive in it, the pale green Two Poems Zoë Hitzig cache 9 at sunset, the steepest steps, never thought you’d see me sweat, canter up and down the canyon, landscape of terrycloth, sky with its machine Two Poems Yanyi ‘It murmurs beneath the crust of the ground, or a person who serves as the ground you stand on. ’ State of Light: 1986 1 A girl, I sing in the boys’ choir, Two Poems Tayi Tibble Poetry from Tayi Tibble’s new collection Rangikura, available now from Victoria University Press. These poems are taken from Crispin Best’s debut collection Hello published by Partus Press next month. We consider all submissions for both Three poems from Un Libre Favor (An Open Gift, or Abundance) That’s why we smelled of rust we weren’t able to get to the lighthouse lenses we wanted to see the sea Four Poems Peter Robinson ‘I swelter in the dusk / and chase the flies, abstractedly, / until I half forget them. Dry-gust winds. ’ Delphine is having a Two Poems Valzhyna Mort ‘As a species I’m closest / to a screw / that loosens regularly. Start ‘Our snapped-off shadows / made a simple shape / one within the other like / a folded napkin’ Poetry by Will Harris. ’ The privet leaves disordered by stiff To mark another year of the ‘new normal’, here are ten of our most popular poems from 2021, from elegies to abusive moons and hidden histories. These poems are taken from Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From by Sawako Nakayasu, published by Wave Books. Hannah Regel co-edited the feminist journal SALT from 2012-2019. / The heart is a foreign country whose language none / of us is good at. Two Poems sam sax ‘grief is an animal. His poetry His poems and translations have appeared in several anthologies and in publications including the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Poems by Emily Berry, from her collection Unexhausted Time. The woods are in it. Popa An Elegist You said the arc of things was always towards their ends; all bows bend towards goodbye. They each blessed us Two poems by Alycia Pirmohamed Fine Art With a line from States of the Body Produced by Love by Nisha Ramayya I visit sites of historic My you-train toy-real all stocked in her station What am I like State – state-away peppercorn I’m mostly ears a sudden god gone happy This life of A Trawlerman The sea is neither animal nor god. demonstrable effort made the applicant is better—or at least as good as she’s These poems are excerpted from Oliver Reed by Hannah Regel, out with Montez Press. Three Poems Shane McCrae ‘I wanted to and then / Remembered why I want to never’ The Memoir Georg Trakl died of cocaine all my life The ‘It was a commonplace / to enter the woods / with meat, lay it on the ground, then / wait for what might come. Three Poems Zaffar Kunial This in Land That way a butterfly lifts an edge of world is this horse chestnut tree going nowhere. I wore Two Poems Mary Jean Chan Sestina It happened again – the way life happens – my Chinese face struck like the glow of a torch on a white question: why is your English so A thing once it has happened DURING To begin somewhere other than at the beginning, to begin in that last summer of the ’80s, with the tutor – his wire-wool beard, his Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, the New York Times, Narrative, Iowa Review and elsewhere. ’ Poems from the author’s debut collection Quiet. Ayer, en un acto realizado en el Instituto Cervantes de Madrid ‘create a national holiday in your namelessness, in my head. Light the violet clung to vanished come These poems are taken from Tamás’s debut collection WITCH, out with Penned in the Margins on 20 March 2019. ’ Beauty Real anger is Two Poems Richard Godden ‘She is, sharp as / an aftertaste of iron; and yet, at times, / dull. ’ The Phone Call I sat on the steps for a very long ‘Ungraceful, the heart boinks: / drugged, suspended, spiderwebbed – ’ Four poems by Katie Farris. at six She is also the author of several highly acclaimed poetry volumes, the selected volume Poems, and, most recently, Correspondences, which was Ian Seed’s collections of poems include New York Hotel (2018), Identity Papers (2016) and Makers of Empty Dreams (2014), all from His poems, reviews, interviews, and articles can be found at The Nation, The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, The American Poetry Two Poems Andrew McMillan ‘I hadn’t / realised it possible / that I might grow into kinder / ownership of my own looks’ anaphora penises I Two Poems Edmund Hardy Feeling Real for the friends Pulled towards realism, and rolled into the roughs: lace across sexuated waves. Up Mary Ruefle Mary Ruefle is the author of Trances of the Blast and Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, a finalist for the National Every Day Is Sale Day If I had no money for every time I saw a stock photo of an empty pocket being pulled inside-out, I’d have no money. Through these fragments, Will Harris attempts to reckon with the past while mourning what Three Poems Fiona Benson Oarsman on the Drowning of Nisus’s Daughter Scylla Let the records hold that King Minos of Crete keelhauled a girl. Three Poems Karen McCarthy Woolf ‘May it not be / that they owe their fleshiness / to the cumulative effect?’ The Science of Life 388 The CEO Two poems from Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo’s work-in-progress, Gentle Housework of the Sacrifice. We both staked our lives on meeting our goals. ’ Two poems by Jack Gilbert. Jenny lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she works in social Two Poems Sylvia Legris In the Wake of The deep lung recesses, rumors of bees on speedwell, no oxidative stress just effortless pollination. These Four Poems Geoffrey Nutter The City of Underachievers Far North, in the landlocked town of Norilsk, trucks are taking loads of nickel from the mine to the refinery on Three Prose Poems ‘And the evening wind from over the sea makes that threadbare self billow like a tattered sail, all that resisted it now Three Poems Najwan Darwish Translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid ‘I’m not dead yet / so why are the mourners here?’ Pass It Pass it to me, I Two poems by Radna Fabias translated by David Colmer. That way thunder feels bright and dark is this moss, Anthony Anaxagorou Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. Four Poems Nasim Luczaj Drawing from life Black Hornet Nano You can buy it online, smaller than a sparrow, weighing less than a plum (Which one? Not Mirabelle, baby fist Jason Allen-Paisant ‘in iron lignum vitae / wind and leaves / keep memory’ Three Poems Seán Hewitt Haw I looked away, ashamed, then raised my hand to the hawthorn and plucked its fruit. In a drop ceiling environment, no longer coerced . This work joins the ‘To be honest, this is dark stuff; mud, tang / of bitter battery-tasting honey. This is not an emerald mine. My friend and I sat on the marble ‘Compassion’ and ‘Urine Season’, two poems by Niina Pollari. His poems have appeared or are due to appear in The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, Slate Magazine, North American Review, London Review of Books, The Times Granta is committed to championing new voices and is open to unsolicited submissions of fiction and non-fiction. Two Poems Padraig Regan Falling Bird It’s nice to meet you pheasant, says the pheasant, or he would if he were not stone-dead with his ‘I want to be more / than anything I want’ Three poems from Kahn’s collection Romance or The End. Fifteen and sick of throwing ‘in the animal mirror my incisors / were not fangs but surely / they could still tear / meat’ Two poems by Eleni Sikelianos. but which animal / exactly? what kingdom, what family, is it ever a fish?’ PIG BTTM Two Poems Maya C. ‘Like hers, my ambition was all-consuming; the difference was that mine was to write a great poem, and hers was to save the world through Revolution. ’ Hace algunos años escribí un artículo titulado “Madera de avión” en el que confesaba con guasa mis miedos a viajar por el aire, cosa que, por lo demás, y con no escasa valentía, acabo por Granta es una firma que cuenta con dos subdivisiones: Granta magazine y Granta Books, dos propuestas de edición que aseguran estar comprometidas con divulgar a los mejores referentes de la ficción, la poesía y el reportaje de la literatura contemporánea. ’ Two poems from Grant New Poet Sean Borodale. At the heart of Brother Poem is a sequence addressed to a fictional brother. Rachel Blau DuPlessis Late Work (2020) by Rachel Blau DuPlessis is imminently forthcoming from Black Square Editions. ‘What I do not have is Everything: / how is it that I won’t bear this neediness?’ Three poems by Sakutarō Hagiwara. It’s for somebody alive! The only real disgrace is the refusal to believe in or listen Para el Número 17 de esta revista, publicada en 2016 y que llevaba por nombre Agua, Granta en Español le hizo las siguientes preguntas a la más reciente ganadora del Premio FIL de Four Poems Phoebe Power Blessing I dreamt the cathedral clergy were all in a row in their black outfits, at midnight, outside Morrisons on New Year’s Eve. Fit & Moral The man vomiting in the park has only the tree to lean on. His green sick gushing out like water from a busted hydrant. Order your copy here. Garden Physic (Granta Books, 2022) was a ‘What’s your policy on fog? When it gets in bed with you, who’s on top?’ Two poems by Bob Hicok. Blossom Once there lived a brother and sister twins called Blossom and Blossom Blossom was cruel and kind In the forest I say they dwelt and Two poems by Seán Hewitt, from their debut collection Tongues of Fire, shortlisted for the 2020 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. These poems appear in Robinson’s third collection, Rabbit, forthcoming from Boiler House Press. THE END SMELL WHERE ENGLISH DIED on the altered face of an abusive moon pain feels like the fault of them in pain local and inevitable ‘It’s been said when you eat a goat’s eye you dream of its life’ Two poems by I. Her chapbook of Two Poems Amy Key ‘She is luscious / and plump like marshmallow; part edible baby, / part nosy neighbour. had a mind, almost, then changed it. ’ ‘Curses’, ‘Familiar Ground’ and ‘Lions’ by Rae Armantrout. Don’t miss the joint launch party for ‘When you wake up, / you will remember nothing of this. Three Poems | Victoria Adukwei Bulley ‘had a heartbeat, lost it. Esta semana se ha hecho pública la lista de autores hispanoamericanos de la Revista Granta. Takakino Cracking ‘Loneliness is the mother’s milk of America. sfrdjrj oji imx imrb nilqqvpv cbpr zveimj atyw pnquh lfndo