Acumen 107 – September 2023

Acumen 107 has 120 pages of new poems, essays, reviews. New poems including by: Shanta Acharya, David Ball, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, Caroline Carver, John Greening, Anthony Head, Jenny Horgan, Christine McNeill, Kim Moore, Michael Swan, Molly Tamarkin, & Rory Waterman. Translations of Zu Ke, Su Xiang & Hans Sahl. Prose includes an interview with Kim Moore, Are You Judging Me Yet?, plus new essays on Russian poet Zinaida Gippius, a barometer of her times, and on Philip Larkin and the Modernist Movement in Poetry.

Editorial
Poems: Molly Tamarkin, Kim Moore, Simon Maddrell, John Greening, Mark Mazzoli, Bridget Thomasin, Martin Lyon
Zinaida Gippius: A Soul in Exile – Peter Eagles
Poems: Kathleen McPhilemy, Francis O’Hare, Lisa Lopresti, Anne Stewart, Gareth Culshaw, Peter Lockhart, Kathleen McPhilemy, D. W. Evans, Alicia Byrne Keane, David Punter, Jennifer Horgan, Christine McNeill, Michael Swan, Ben Banyard, Shanta Acharya, George Davey, Alexander Peplow, Jeff Skinner, Wendy French, Roger Harvey, Doreen Hinchliffe
Interview with Kim Moore – David Perman
Poems: Helen Ashley, Charlene Langfur, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, Briege Duffaud, Barry Tempest, Vanessa Sharp, Emma Lee
Poetry in Translation: Zu Ke, Su Xiang (Kevin Maynard), Hans Sahl (Dennis Tomlinson)
Poems: Omar Sabbagh, Rory Waterman, Caroline Carver, Alan Humm, David Seddon, Ruqayyah A. Aderibigbe, Bernadette McCarthy Flahive, A. C. Clarke, Anthony Head, Alison Chisholm, Kim Moore, James Fountain, Julian Dobson, Kit Ingram
Philip Larkin and the Modernist Movement in Poetry – Paul Gittins
Poems: Chris Scriven, Geoff Daniel, Nick Pearson, Peter Sutton, Kenneth Steven, Frank McMahon, Diana Hendry, Alastair MacDonald Jackson, Malcolm Bradley, Gwen Sayers, Alex Barr, David Olsen
Responses
Poems: Mike McNamara, Angela Porter, Alessio Zanelli, Rebecca Gethin, Paul Surman, D. A. Hickman, Chiara Salomoni, Rowan Middleton, Heather Deckner, Liz Adams, Piers Cain, A. A. Marcoff, Audrey Henderson, John McOwat, Edward Alport, Justin Lloyde, David Ball, Elizabeth Barton
Reviews: Belinda Cooke, Jennifer A. McGowan, Glyn Pursglove, Hilary Davies, Belinda Cooke, Fred Beake
Poetry Comment