Vol. 45 No. 4 / Vol. 46 No. 1
Editorial
Introduction
Poems
John Burnside
Interview: John Burnside
Chosen Young Essayists
Zoe Brigley: The Potential of Silence: Re-reading
John Burnside’s Early Poems after A Lie about my Father
Phillip Pass: The Plight of Dwelling: ‘Settlements’
and the Making of Home
Gemma Green: Infinity and Beyond
Poems
Robin Robertson: Wildering
James Simpson: The Untenanted Room
Peter Dale: Second Comeback
Exile
Ian Parks: Mill Bank
Josephine Balmer: Aetiology
Gemini
Andy Brown: The Departure
The Last Thatch
Zoe Brigley: Daughter
Behind the Looking Glass
Jaime Robles: Threads
Gemma Green: Crescent
Louise C. Callaghan: The Tapestry Cartoons
Portrait of Sebastián Martinez y Pérez
Fransisco de Goya y Lucientes
William Oxley: Night Fishing at Antibes
Will Stone: Sometimes This Genius Grows Dark
Ice Warning
Andrew McNeillie: Late Spring
The Big Snow
Andrew Waterman: Casualty, 1949
The Examination
Runner
Quick as a Flash
Aviva Dautch: Grasshoppers
Lynn Roberts: Lunchtime with Eros
Melinda Lovell: Making a Five Element Love Poem
Essays
David Borthwick: ‘To Comfort me with Nothing’:
John Burnside’s Dissident Poetics
Andy Brown: Finding ‘The Lit Space’: Reality, Imagination,
and the Commonplace, in the Poetry of John Burnside
Fiona Sampson: The Expanded Lyric: John Burnside
and the Challenge to British tradition
Jaime Robles: In the Shadow of the Ineffable: Imagery
in John Burnside’s ‘Annunciations’
Alan Stubbs: Reading Burnside
Maitreyabandhu: Near-Belonging
Poems
Lynne Wycherley: The Shell Man
Westray Firth
A Distance Lit with Deer
Winter Trees
Tim Murdoch: Home Ground
Reading Elizabeth Smart
Eleanor Hooker: The Island
Singing Ice
Chris Hardy: Momentarily Bright
Maitreyabandhu: Puja
The Master
Samantha Wynne Rhydderch: Dressmaking
Emigré
Delft
Gypo
Alan Stubbs: Woken
Gary Allen: Mexico
Back Roads
Jenny Osborne: Wheal Betsy
India Russell: The Handkerchiefs
Siân Thomas: This House Runs Backwards
Leaf House
Omar Sabbagh: Still in the House of my Father
My House
The Lighthouse of Four Fists
Patricia McCarthy: A Different Lodging
Tinkling the Keys
Terry Jones: Grand
Fields
Arrangement
Christopher Crawford: Prayer to Burns
Two chosen young Broadsheet poets
Annemarie Ní Churreáin: The Lane
End of Girlhood
Safe House
The Milk-Run
Tibetan Sweetbread
Richie McCaffery: Busker
Going Straight
Rings
Woodwork
40 Watt Bulb
Notes for Broadsheet Poets
Aviva Dautch: Like a Summer of Locusts:
On Reading John Burnside’s Gift Songs