PRE-ORDER | Winter 2026 / The Body

Description

Inside this issue…

Features:

• Regina Mosch slips ‘Between Words and Image’ to explore lesbian bodies through poems and photographs;
• ‘From Goblin Mode to God Mode’: Matthew Haigh on completing a second poetry collection through disability;
• Nathan Spoon offers a crip POV on imagination and poem making;
• Jo Davis interviews Rachael Boast, editor of Versus Versus: 100 Poems Anthology by Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent Poets;
• Inhabiting the Wrong Body: Alisha Ahmed discusses the loneliness of non-white bodies used as political symbols;
• ‘My Spine Is Still a Rosary’: Chloe Jade Woodhouse on anorexia nervosa and osteoporosis
• Poetry Wales Award: Judge’s Notes from Bethany Handley
• Between the Brackets: Ammy Alamir explores processing unwanted touch
• Inhabiting the Flesh: Nivara Lune considers Yoruba Cosmology and the Queer Ancestral Skin

Poetry:

JK Anowe, Rachael Boast, Jade E. Bradford, Jeanette Burton, Mike Farren, Naoise Gale, Joan García Viltró, Bethany Handley, Shiki Itsuma, Taiwo Hassan, Christina Hennemann, Julie Irigaray, Rosie Jackson, Gayle Kennedy, Mary Kelly, Vanessa Lampert, Gwyneth Lewis, Carol Moldaw, Karthika Naïr, Matt Nõmme, Pascale Petit, Kimberly Ann Priest, Carlton Rose, Dai Smith, Jay Teague, and John Newton Webb.

Reviews:

• Dylan Williams reviews Zoë Skoulding’s Do I Look Like an Atmosphere?, Chris Torrance’s Path and Nancy Gaffield’s Destiny Manifest;
• Georgi Gill reviews Daniel Sluman’s Pain Songs, Rachael Boast’s Volvelle and Sophie Buchaillard’s Painting over the Cracks;
• Harriet Truscott reviews Susie Campbell’s Wastelands, Martina Evans’ Drunken Driving and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch’s Milk Wood Memoir;
• and Will Snelling reviews Cathy Galvin’s Ethnology, Andrew McNeillie’s A Wild Goose Chase and Jean Sprackland’s Goyle, Chert and Mire.