Summer 2023 | Vol. 59 Issue 1: Working Class Writing

FEATURES

• Editorial
• On Value, Pay and Problems of Capitalism: Poets Talk About the Challenges of Economic Stress | read an extract via culture matters
• In Such Timelessness: Robert Minhinnick Presents Unpublished Poems by Duncan Bush
• Words and Images from the South Wales Valleys
• Cultivating the Strange: A Poetry Workshop on Using Surprise by John McCullough
• Duos: Poems in Conversation: Andrea Witzke Slot and Srivinas Mandavilli

REVIEWS

• Elizabeth Kemball reviews Tania Hershmann’s Still Life with Octopus & Santuary: There Must Be Somewhere by Angela Graham et al
• George Sandifer-Smith reviews Tôpher Mills’s Sex on Toast & M.S. Evans’s Nights on the Line
• Matthew M.C. Smith reviews Susannah Evans’s Space Baby & Peter Finch’s Collected Poems

POEMS

• John McCullough
• Rishi Dastidar
• Derek Otsuji
• Jenny Mitchell
• Jayant Kashyap
• Sadia Pineda Hameed
• Madailín Burnhope
• HLR
• Rob A. Mackenzie
• Louise Peterkin
• Emily Cotterill
• Brennig Davies
• Matthew M.C. Smith
• Hilary Watson
• David Lloyd
• Amy Wack
• Katherine Stansfield
• Susie Wild
• Tony Williams
• Duncan Bush
• Gemma June Howell & Slug
• Robert Walton | read an extended version of the poem here
• Sarah Wimbush
• Tilla Brading
• Rae Howells
• Raine Geogeghan
• Matt Duggan
• Mason Lloyd
• Leigh Anthony Manley
• Steve Logan
• Jane Houston
• Rufus Mufasa
• Aysar Ghassan
• Harriet Jae
• Julia Webb
• Cheryl Moskowitz
• Fran Fernández Arce
• Maithreyi Karnoor
• Angela Graham
• SK Kim
• Srivinas Mandavilli
• Andrea Witzke Slot

Back Cover Poem Nicholas McGaughey

Cover Image Lucy Purrington