Interior with Desire Line 52 Nature Poem with Desire Line 52 Writer’s Block with Desire Line 53 Maria Ferguson Is it the fault of the vessel then? 54 Sex may feel different when trying

to conceive 55

Fran Lock The Language of Flowers 56 Emily Bludworth de Barrios

Like a Bone or Like Wrath or Like Dreadful Angels 58

Philip Gross

So Mayer

Ask the Hand 59

Isaac Transaction 60

Kami Enzie To Live and Shave in New York

61

Amit Chaudhuri Clothes-drying 62 Cold Soup 63 Chhena Sandesh Bhubaneshwar 63

Gallery Peter Liversidge 64

Essay Jack Underwood, The Poets of Gascony 67

A Mutual Experience 76 Sarah Howe and Monica Youn

Reviews Jack Belloli on Kit Fan and Katie Farris 97 Zakia Carpenter-Hall and Vanessa Kisuule on Momtaza Mehri, Terrance Hayes and Airea D. Matthews 102 Stephanie Sy-Quia on Jacob Polley and Nick Laird 114 Edward Doegar on José Olivarez, Monica Youn and Rowan Evans 118 Malachi Mukisa on a selection of debut poetry pamphlets 124

The Poetry Society Annual Lecture Ilya Kaminsky, Poetry in a Time of Crisis 129