Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon Jessica Mookherjee

Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon Jessica MookherjeeLong before we went to the moon, we dreamt of going there, of what it would be like, in every medium from cinema to comic strip. Now, ten brave cosmonauts have resurrected that most rickety, most celestial of technologies the lyric poem as a means of reaching out as far as any of us has ever gone, in a space race from which some of them may never return. What will they find out there, amid the cold craters of the forbidding lunar crust?

sometimes hopeful speculations

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sleepy Shiloh Springs was shaken as five teenagers were clubbed and shot to death and a sixth left for dead

Most of the pictures are printed for the first time in colour as the artist intended

the pain of racism and misogyny and the sometimes fraught complications of love and family life speak all the more strongly of the value of a determined engagement with life because of their relationship to the poems that address the suddenness of death

And then there’s the Church of the Holy Heavens―the space cult that’s been wooing Pearl for all she’s worth

) Meet a giddy comet

“Patrick Deeley is one of those remarkable poets for whom the raw immensity of the rural will

Some are well known international names

100 Queer Poems (co-editor)

S'adi Yusuf

his jazz contemporaries