The Calm About a blanket being held openA hand on the hemstitch of that flapAbout this feeling I will never feel againAbout this feeling you never felt sinceYou held the blanket, your arm, the whiffOf your armpit, the flesh of you whoNever wore clothes in bed, your nakednessFelt all the

VOLUME 3: ISSUE 1
SUMMER 2024

What a pleasure to introduce five poems by the prolific and brilliant Molly Peacock, queen of rhyme and meter, who has done so much to bring contemporary freshness and zing and a sometimes-startling intimacy to formal poetry. In this grouping, Peacock writes about the death of her husband, Joyce scholar

VOLUME 1: ISSUE 2
MAY/JUNE 2022