The expansion of the prose poem / Jeremy Noel-Tod -- The end of days / Golan Haji -- Merry Christmas from Hegel / Anne Carson -- Going nowhere, getting somewhere / Vahni Capildeo -- Children are the orgasm of the world / Hera Lindsay Bird -- Antico Adagio / Peter Gizzi -- Knife / Rod Mengham -- A woman shopping / Anne Boyer -- Notes towards a race riot scene / Bhanu Kapil -- "There were barnacles..." / Sarah Howe -- from Letter against the firmament / Sean Bonney -- from Citizen: an American lyric / Claudia Rankine -- My funeral / Peter Manson -- Flower, quarter, mask / John Fuller -- Reclaiming a beloved city / Clifton Gachague -- Imagined sons 9 : Greek salad / Carrie Etter -- Place name : flog man / Kei Miller -- Rape joke / Patricia Lockwood -- from Fairies / Mei-mei Berssenbrugge -- from Mystériuses / Éric Suchère -- Some fears / Emily Berry -- from Odes to TL61P / Keston Sutherland -- The mysterious arrival of an unusual letter / Mark Strand -- Chicken / Cathy Wagner -- Birthweights / Chris McCabe -- Other things / Alvin Pang -- from Adventures in Shangdu / Cathy Park Hong -- Cry break / Paige Ackerson-Kiely -- Short prayer to sound / Vivek Narayana -- Homeless heart / John Ashbery -- Black sunlight / D.S. Marriott -- Nightmare pink / Elena Penga -- Conversations about home (at the deportation centre) / Warsan Shire -- O elegant giant / Laura Kasischke -- Via negativa / Jane Monson -- The experience / Simon Armitage -- Folkways / Anthony Joseph -- from Virtual airport / Matthew Welton -- Photographs, undeveloped / Ágnes Lehóczky -- from Folklore / Tim Atkins -- Edith / Sophie Robinson -- The wren / Jen Hadfield -- from Bird bird / Jeff Hilson -- The hornsman / Bill Griffiths -- from The idylls / Maurice Riordan -- Blue dog / Luke Kennard -- If / Sina Queyras -- Fiddleheads / Seamus Heaney --
Captain of the lighthouse / Togara Muzanenhamo -- from Angle of yaw / Ben Lerner -- The phases of the moon in London / Amjad Nasser -- Corruption / Srikanth Reddy -- from echolocatin / Mani Rao -- from Chapter E / Christian Bök -- Denigration / Harryette Mullen -- A hardworking peasant from the idyllic countryside / Linh Dinh -- Ted's head / Rod Smith -- Hosea: a commentary / Charles Boyle -- The skull ring / Chelsey Minnis -- from The weather / Lisa Robertson -- Ode / Lisa Jarnot -- from Letters to Wendy's / Joe Wenderoth -- The most sensual room / Masayo Koike -- The cough / Barbara Guest -- Cinema-going / Ian Hamilton Finlay -- from Joan of Arc / Nathalie Quintane -- Neglected knives / Kritín Ómarsdóttir -- Little corona / Don Paterson -- Seoul's dinner / Kim Hyesoon -- Christopher Robin / Czesław Miłosz -- Returns to harmony 3 / Agha Shahid Ali -- Thought (I) / Esther Jansma -- The poet / Eileen Myles -- Prose poem / Ron Padgett -- from Kuchh Vakya / Udayan Vajpeyi -- from Lawn of excluded middle / Rosmarie Waldrop -- The word-gulag / Abdellatif Laâbi -- Dustie-fute / David Kinloch -- dropped on the ground · the small coin / Zhou Yaping -- from Short talks / Anne Carson -- In love with Raymond Chandler / Margaret Atwood -- Letters / Clark Coolidge -- What no one could have told them / C.D. Wright -- An anointing / Thylias Moss -- Man with a mower / Jenny Bornholdt -- Deer dancer / Joy Harjo -- from The stumbling block its index / Brian Catling -- Chekhov: a sestina / Mark Strand -- Inflation / Carol Rumens -- Quaker oats / Rita Dove -- from The world doesn't end / Charles Simic -- Human wishes / Robert Hass -- Burnt hair / Meena Alexander -- The Hanoi market / Yusef Komunyakaa -- reading / joanne burns --
The first week of mourning / Shang Qin -- The dogs / Yves Bonnefoy -- from My life / Lyn Hejinian -- The souvenir / Dan Pagis -- A walk through the museum / Ánges Nemes Nagy -- Hearts / Laurie Duggan -- The land of counterpane / Lee Harwwod -- from C / Peter Reading -- Many musicians practice their mysteries while I am cooking / Bink Noll -- Or else / Christopher Middleton -- abglanz / reflected gleam / Wulf Kirsten -- Honey / James Wright -- A vernacular tale / Peter Didsbury -- The colonel / Carolyn Forché -- Meeting Ezra Pound / Miroslav Holub -- Goodtime Jesus / James Tate -- Vanity, Wisconsin / Maxine Chernoff -- Gay full story / Bernadette Mayer -- from Logbook / Tom Raworth -- The colors of night / N. Scott Momaday -- Portrait of A.E. (an artful fairy tale) / Elke Erb -- Chile / Ottó Orbán -- Scissors / Shuntarö Tanikawa -- A caterpillar / Robert Bly -- Cloistered / Seamus Heaney -- Ape / Russel Edson -- from The wild rose / Ken Smith -- Chimes of silence / Wole Soyinka -- from Mercian hymns / Geoffrey Hill -- from Shooting script / Adrienne Rich -- The bookcase / Tomas Tranströmer -- For John Clare / John Ashberty -- Milk / James Schuyler -- from it / Inger Christensen -- A case / Gael Turnbull -- An old-fashioned traveller on the trade routes / Rosemary Tonks -- Strayed crab / Elizabeth Bishop -- The flag / Pablo Neruda -- Vocabulary / Wisława Szymborska -- Catherine of Siena / Elizabeth Jennings -- from City / Roy Fisher -- Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges -- from Letters to James Alexander / Jack Spicer -- Hermes, dog and star / Zbigniew Herbert -- Where the tennis court was ... / Eugenio Montale -- A supermarket in California / Alan Ginsberg -- Clock / Pierre Reverdy -- Meditations in an emergency / Frank O'Hara -- Love letter to King Tutankhamun / Dulce María Loynaz --
The clerk's vision / Octavio Paz
Around the star's throne / Hans Arp
The god of war / Bertolt Brecht
Street cries / Luis Cernuda
The pleasures of the door / Francis Ponge
from Vigils / John Lehmann
Nijinksi / George Seferis
The right meaning / César Vallejo
Blue notebook, no. 10 / Daniil Kharms
Bourgeois news / Charles Madge
In praise of glass / Gabriela Mistral
from The orators / W.H. Auden
My occupations / Henri Michaux
Force of habit / André Breton and Paul Eluard
Sunflowers are already black gunpowder / Anzai Fuye
The dog's retort / Lu Xun
Hell is graduated / Max Jacob
A day / Rabindranath Tagore
from Kora in hell: improvisations / William Carlos Williams
Pulmonary tuberculosis / Katherine Mansfield
The moon / Juan Ramón Jiménez
London notes / Jessie Dismoor
Street circus / Pierre Reverdy
from Tender buttons / Gertrude Stein
Winter night / Georg Trakl
from Scented leaves- from a Chinese jar / Allen Upward
Absinthia taetra / Ernest Dowson
The pipe / Stéphane Mallarmé
The disciple / Oscar Wilde
from By the waters of Babylon / Emma Lazarus
After the flood / Arthur Rimbaud
Sideshow / Arthur Rimbaud
The end of the world / Ivan Turgenev
On the sea / Ivan Turgenev
The stranger / Charles Beaudelaire
Windows / Charles Beaudelaire
The bad glazier / Charles Beaudelaire
The madman / Aloysius Bertrand
The mason / Aloysius Bertrand
Haarlem / Aloysius Bertrand.