POETRY BIRMINGHAM
Literary Journal

I S S U E 10

2016E8 Tropical Stag Beetle, photo by Birmingham Museums Trust (CC0)

C O N T E N T S

Prose

Felix Bazalgette on making Awoko • Charles Boyle on independent publishing • Open interview with Jeremy Corbyn • Armand D’Angour on the word ‘forgiveness’ • Ibrahim Fawzy reviews On Violent Phenomena and River in an Ocean • Daniel Fraser reviews Samuel Beckett’s Poetry • Stu Hennigan reviews Culture Is Bad for You • Gurmeet Kaur reviews Europe, Love Me Back; Take Care; and From From • Victoria Kennefick reviews Glut • Dominic Leonard interviews Vivek Narayanan • Open letters by Olivia Loving and Danny Morrison • Eric T. Racher on empathy • Christopher Ricks on the word ‘debut’ • Gonzalo Rubio reviews The Complete Poems of Enheduana • Richard Skinner on Muslimgauze • Hatice Yıldız on Barbie • Michael — reviews Faith, Hope and Carnage

Poems

Kazim Ali • Tiffany Atkinson • Will Eaves • Philip Hancock • Geoff Hattersley •  Luke Kennard • Fran Lock • Bill Manhire • Paul Muldoon • Vivek Narayanan •  Bernard O'Donoghue • Abigail Parry • Michelle Penn • J.H. Prynne •
Eric T. Racher •  Clive Wilmer

Photographs

Andy Aitchison • Oleg Galay

Editor

Nuzhat Bukhari