Intro -- Description -- Title Page -- Contents -- THE PEOPLE -- HWAET!: Ledbury Poetry Festival -- ADAM MUNTHE: A Foreword -- MARK FISHER: Introduction: Hwaet! -- CHLOE GARNER: A Festival of Generosity -- PETER ARSCOTT -- JOHN BURNS -- MARTYN MOXLEY...
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Intro -- Description -- Title Page -- Contents -- THE PEOPLE -- HWAET!: Ledbury Poetry Festival -- ADAM MUNTHE: A Foreword -- MARK FISHER: Introduction: Hwaet! -- CHLOE GARNER: A Festival of Generosity -- PETER ARSCOTT -- JOHN BURNS -- MARTYN MOXLEY -- RICHARD SURMAN -- PETER CARTER -- ALAN LLOYD -- THE POETS -- ROBERT ADAMSON: The Long Bay Debating Society -- FLEUR ADCOCK: The sleeping-bag -- JOHN AGARD: The Jester's Eureka Moment -- PATIENCE AGBABI: Museum (1590) -- FADHIL AL-AZZAWI: Unsuccessful Film -- MARAM AL-MASSRI: from Barefoot Souls -- BASEM AL-NABRISS: No cherries in Gaza -- AL-SADDIQ AL-RADDI: Poem -- NICK ALEXANDER: A Heron -- AL ALVAREZ: Night Life -- ANTONELLA ANEDDA: [Untitled] -- SARA-JANE ARBURY: The next train to depart from platform 2 is the 10.40 Central Trains service to Hereford. Calling at… -- SIMON ARMITAGE: The Subconscious -- NIC AUBURY: Job description -- MONA ARSHI: Seashells -- SHAKILA AZIZZADA: Kabul -- GABEBA BADEROON: The Song of the Husband -- JO BELL: SBJ -- CHARLES BENNETT: New Come Over -- EMILY BERRY: Drunken Bellarmine -- LIZ BERRY: Connemara -- SUJATA BHATT: A Neutral Country -- RUTH BIDGOOD: Enigma -- JULIA BIRD: The Preservation of Flowers -- EAVAN BOLAND: Local History -- SEAN BORODALE: Otters -- ALISON BRACKENBURY: Ninety-seven -- ALAN BROWNJOHN: Making a Difference -- JOHN BURNSIDE: Midnight in Novosibirsk -- CIARAN CARSON: Rain -- KAYO CHINGONYI: In Defence of Darkness -- TOM CHIVERS: Fallout -- GILLIAN CLARKE: Eisteddfod of the Black Chair -- BILLY COLLINS: Our Poem -- DAVID CONSTANTINE: Fields -- WENDY COPE: Orb -- JULIA COPUS: Grievers -- LORNA CROZIER: The Underworld -- TADEUSZ DABROWSKI: Nothing was made -- FRED D'AGUIAR: Transit Lounge -- AMIR DARWISH: Fizzy Drink -- JIM DENING: A cold sun -- IMTIAZ DHARKER: Wolf, Words -- ISOBEL DIXON: Late Knowledge -- MAURA DOOLEY: A bunch of consolation MARK DOTY: In Two Seconds -- CAROL ANN DUFFY: 22 Reasons for the Bedroom Tax -- IAN DUHIG: The Passion of the Holly -- HELEN DUNMORE: Ten Books -- DOUGLAS DUNN: Botanics -- ALI COBBY ECKERMANN: Thunder raining poison -- JONATHAN EDWARDS: Servant Minding a Seat for his Master Before a Performance of The Rivals, Covent Garden Theatre, 1775 -- RHIAN EDWARDS: The Gulls Are Mugging -- KRISTIINA EHIN: 'This world…' -- MENNA ELFYN: Gyrru trwy Gariad -- Love rides high -- MARTÍN ESPADA: How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way -- RUTH FAINLIGHT: A Question for My Dead -- PAUL FARLEY: Clever and Cold -- ATHENA FARROKHZAD: Ask her -- VICKI FEAVER: Pugilist -- ELAINE FEINSTEIN: The Last Trick of Harry Houdini -- JAMES FENTON: The Revenant -- ROY FISHER: A Garden Leaving Home -- S.J. FOWLER: Son of Ships -- ANGELA FRANCE: Cold Comfort -- ANNIE FREUD: Cobra Mist -- FORREST GANDER: Evaporation: a Border History -- AZITA GHAHREMAN: The Boat That Brought Me -- VONA GROARKE: This Being Still -- PHILIP GROSS: The Day of the Things -- DOMINIC HALE: Song of the Midges -- SOPHIE HANNAH: My Candle -- TONY HARRISON: Black Sea Aphrodite -- GRAHAM HARTILL: Poem for Rob -- MATT HARVEY: In Praise of Amateur Astronomers -- ROBERT HASS: An Argument about Poetics Imagined at Squaw Valley after a Night Walk under the Mountain -- JOHN HEGLEY: A Villanelle for Mademoiselle -- PAUL HENRY: The White-leaved Oak -- SELIMA HILL: Owls -- BRENDA HILLMAN: The Bride Tree Can't Be Read -- JANE HIRSHFIELD: You Go to Sleep in One Room and Wake in Another -- MATTHEW HOLLIS: Causeway -- LIU HONGBIN: Voice -- ADAM HOROVITZ: Fire-voices -- MICHAEL HOROVITZ: For Felix Mendelssohn -- SARAH HOWE: On a line by Xu Lizhi -- LESLEY INGRAM: Garter -- HELEN IVORY: Wunderkammer with Weighing Scales and Hospital Bed -- SARAH JAMES: The Man Who Raced Fire -- MEIRION JORDAN: Phaedo -- JENNY JOSEPH: Two Journeys DORIS KAREVA: from Septachord -- KAPKA KASSABOVA: It's Always Strange to Sleep in Cities -- JACKIE KAY: April Sunshine -- LUKE KENNARD: Balcony -- AMY KEY: An Abecedary of Unrequited Love -- MIMI KHALVATI: Glose: The Summer of Love, 1967 -- JOHN KINSELLA: Playing Cricket at Wheatlands -- KO UN: Little monk Ilyeon's journey -- NICK LAIRD: The Good Son -- VALERIE LAWS: Lobotomy I: Walter Jackson Freeman II -- GWYNETH LEWIS: Ornithology -- LIZ LOCHHEAD: Persimmons -- MICHAEL LONGLEY: The Snowdrops -- DAVE LORDAN: Tiger Blowjob -- HANNAH LOWE: If You Believe: Old Paradise Street -- RODDY LUMSDEN: Objects at Rest -- ROGER McGOUGH: Aubade -- JAMIE McKENDRICK: The Hunters -- LACHLAN MACKINNON: WCW -- ANDREW McMILLAN: last train -- IAN McMILLAN: He Finished Up Down Nine-clog Pit -- ANGUS MACNEACAIL: art, lived -- HOLLIE McNISH: Dandelions -- NIKOLA MADZIROV: The Cross of History -- VALERIO MAGRELLI: Tombeau de Totò -- MAITREYABANDHU: New Songs, Old Gladness -- BILL MANHIRE: 20 Stanzas in the Haunted House -- JACK MAPANJE: Greetings from Grandpa -- GLYN MAXWELL: Photos from Before -- SAMUEL MENASHE: Reproduce! -- Self Made -- Repose -- Awake -- Time Out of Mind -- Warm in Wool -- NEIL ASTLEY: In Praise of Samuel Menashe -- ADRIAN MITCHELL: My Literary Career So Far -- ANNE MICHAELS: Ask Aloud -- KEI MILLER: The Weight of Bees -- REZA MOHAMMADI: Illegal Immigrant -- KIM MOORE: The Scaffolder -- BLAKE MORRISON: Meredith -- SINÉAD MORRISSEY: The Rope -- HELEN MORT: Mountain -- ANDREW MOTION: The Elimination of a Picture -- PAUL MULDOON: With Eilmer of Malmesbury -- TOGARA MUZANENHAMO: +49 -- DALJIT NAGRA: The day Heaney died -- KATRINA NAOMI: Maybe Owls -- AMJAD NASSER: Light -- GRACE NICHOLS: Night -- TAL NITZÁN: A Short History -- KIWAO NOMURA: And then parade -- VÍCTOR RODRÍGUEZ NÚÑEZ: from stopover -- NAOMI SHIHAB NYE: Good Night, Sleep Tight -- Life Loves SEAN O'BRIEN: Storm Beach -- BERNARD O'DONOGHUE: Salmon -- SHARON OLDS: A Mercy -- FRANK ORMSBY: The Willow Forest -- LEANNE O'SULLIVAN: David Copperfield -- RUTH PADEL: Encontro das Águas -- BRIAN PATTEN: The Minister for Exams -- PASCALE PETIT: My Wolverine -- CLARE POLLARD: In the Horniman Museum -- JACOB POLLEY: Jackself's Quality -- KATRINA PORTEOUS: The Ain Sakhri Lovers -- CRAIG RAINE: Bitch -- MOHAN RANA: As the Past Approaches -- BRENDA READ-BROWN: How to make an angel smile -- PETER READING: from -273.15 -- DERYN REES-JONES: from And You, Helen -- CHRISTOPHER REID: 'Twixt -- MAURICE RIORDAN: Feet -- MICHAEL SYMMONS ROBERTS: I Shake Out My Coat -- ROBIN ROBERTSON: Beside Loch Iffrin -- MICHAEL ROSEN: People Run -- Because My Parents Were Communists… -- Hwaet! -- VALÉRIE ROUZEAU: from Vrouz -- PHILIP RUSH: Dear Andrew -- KAY RYAN: The Market House, Ledbury -- LAWRENCE SAIL: Lundy Headland -- FIONA SAMPSON: Harvest -- JACQUELINE SAPHRA: Everlasting -- JANE SATTERSFIELD: Forfeit -- MICHAEL SCHMIDT: I know the house of course -- JO SHAPCOTT: Almandine (Fanny's ring) -- OWEN SHEERS: The Dark Seed -- PENELOPE SHUTTLE: The Penelopes -- HANNAH SILVA: from The Kathy Doll -- KATHRYN SIMMONDS: Launceston -- KEN SMITH: Days on Dog Hill -- KAREN SOLIE: from The Caiplie Caves -- JEAN SPRACKLAND: lost/lust -- RUTH STACEY: Actions Speak -- ANNE STEVENSON: Winter Idyll from My Back Window -- GERDA STEVENSON: Cat-like -- TONI STUART: in a single breath -- PHOEBE STUCKES: Little Song -- ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM: Tongue -- MATTHEW SWEENEY: Five Yellow Roses -- GEORGE SZIRTES: What she told me about beauty -- MACHI TAWARA: Two Tanka -- FRED VOSS: Fist-knock Future -- MARK WALDRON: Yes I admit that I have ate -- PHILIP WELLS: Reciting 'Dulce et Decorum est' at the Tower of London -- HUGO WILLIAMS: African nurses -- MICK WOOD: The Freerunners KAREN McCARTHY WOOLF: Up On the Hill -- C.D. WRIGHT: The old business about form & content -- KIT WRIGHT: Wilhelm -- LUKE WRIGHT: The Back Step -- SAMANTHA WYNNE-RHYDDERCH: Climbing Helvellyn -- PETER WYTON: Jack Mapanje Is Gobsmacked -- YANG LIAN: from Narrative Poem -- JANE YEH: A Short History of Migration -- GŌZŌ YOSHIMASU: In Ledbury, I (who?) sang along with the bells, ..... -- BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH: Things We Say -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- About the Editor -- Copyright
