Anon - the anonymous submissions poetry magazine for new writing

Anon 6 Includes interviews with Peter McCarey and Roddy Lumsden, an essay on Jen Hadfield and Jen Tynes by Timothy C. Baker, a television insider's view of the recent BBC Poetry Season and an account of what it takes to get 100 poets in one room by Jim Carruth.

Including poems from Corey Ginsberg, Michael Gregory, Aiko Harman, Michael Meyerhofer, Abegail Morley, J.D. Smith, William Stevenson and Jason C Venner.

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Coming soon: Full author biographies

Example poems:

The Bats
The bats unveiled themselves in the darkness
of my aunt’s attic. A row of jagged
silken sleeves hanging from moonlit rafters
bright as polished silver. They swam

through the muddled air like supersonic babies,
making a sound I imagine empty wombs
might make in women who can’t ﬁll them up,
wheeling in circles against the light ﬂung

hard upon their faces. They ﬂuttered,
shook like mystics; their behaviour revelatory
as a stranger’s underwear found tossed
upon the marital bed, making me tremble
even at the thought.

Asleep, I tore at my ﬁngers and searched
the sheets all night.

Christian Ward

October Love Failure
Your scent is heaven, he said,
as if, on so slight a hinge,
her coldness would turn to lust,
her clothes fall like leaves.

Will Buckingham

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