Hear poet Mark Antony Owen read poems for wave 1 of literary poetry journal iamb. Mark Antony Owen wave 1 winter 2020 back next the poet Syllabic poet Mark Antony Owen writes exclusively in nine original, self-created forms. His work centres on that world where the rural bleeds into the suburban: a world he calls ‘subrural’. Mark is the author of digital-only poetry project Subruria , as well as the creator, curator and publisher of online poetry journals iamb and After... the poems A designated public place 00:00 / 01:03 You are in a designated public place, watching a thin stegosaurus of bunting get battered by the wind. The Jubilee beds, crowned by grey roses; the never-ending rain. This time of year there would normally be stalls, bouncy castles, young mothers wiping picnics from the faces of toddlers. Look up and you might see swifts, winding invisible maypole streamers round the shifting contrail of a jet. Today, swings unswung; slick, unclimbable frames. You are in a designated public place, yet you’ve never felt more private in your life. Come again when the bins are dizzy with wasps and the bandstand buzzes with hits you can hum – before that old gaoler winter chains the gates. Muntjac 00:00 / 00:36 A dog escaped from its yard, straying from the bounded woods, you drop like a ripened fruit – slip from your disguise of fog to reveal the awkward wedge of you, disrobed and alert. The sprung trap of your leaping; desperate kick at the wire wall that separates our worlds. You are willing me to freeze, be you, and instinctively, my muscles seize with your fear. Tom & Jerry & me & you 00:00 / 00:57 I wish you had known your great-grandfather, my granddad, stubbed out by thirty years of smoking and lying about it. Anyway, he loved Tom & Jerry. I remember his cigarette wheeze; how he’d laugh at the pair and fold in two whenever Tom got smashed in the face. He fought in a war (Granddad, not Tom). Actually, Tom did fight a war: your great-grandfather’s name was Thomas – ‘TOM!’, as your great-grandmother reduced him. Jerry did terrible things to Tom. There are war stories of him, punching through doors to escape the memories of men he served with, men he saw killed. Yet the Tom I knew was a pussycat. Publishing credits A designated public place / Muntjac: Places of Poetry Tom & Jerry & me & you: exclusive first publication by iamb

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Hear the poets of wave 1 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for winter 2020. wave one winter 2020 Ankh Spice Briony Collins Clarissa Aykroyd Geraldine Clarkson John McCullough K Weber Kim Harvey Lisa Kelly Mari Ellis Dunning Mariah Whelan Mark Antony Owen Mark Fiddes Matthew Haigh Natalie Ann Holborow Nigel Kent Rae Howells Rishi Dastidar Sarah Fletcher Steve Denehan Tara Skurtu

Hear the poets of wave 13 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for spring 2023. wave thirteen spring 2023 Anila Arshad-Mehmood Anna Milan Ben Blench Courtenay Schembri Gray Dale Booton Darren J Beaney Di Slaney Emily Cotterill James McConachie Jude Marr Mary Ford Neal Michael Conley Rachel Deering Sam J Grudgings Stephanie Clare Smith

Hear the poets of wave 8 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for winter 2021. wave eight winter 2021 Beth Brooke Catrice Greer Cora Dessalines Fiona Sampson Hilary Otto JC Niala Leeanne Quinn Lucy Holme Marcelle Newbold Natalie Crick Oliver Comins Peter Scalpello Robert Harper Suchi Govindarajan Zoe Brooks

Hear the poets of wave 18 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for summer 2024. wave eighteen summer 2024 A R Williams Deborah Harvey Hilary Menos Isabelle Kenyon Julieanne Larick Liam Bates Mims Sully Nicole Tallman Niki Strange Phillip Crymble Rachel Carney Sinéad Griffin Thomas Zimmerman Warrick Wynne Yvonne Marjot

Hear the poets of wave 15 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for autumn 2023. wave fifteen autumn 2023 Abigail Lim Kah Yan Adam Cairns Andy Breckenridge C Daventry Dominic Weston Elisabeth Sennitt Clough Emma Lee Gaynor Kane Grace Uitterdijk Julie Easley Lesley James Luke Palmer Lynn Valentine Özge Lena Wendy Allen

Hear the poets of wave 9 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for spring 2022. wave nine spring 2022 Alexandra Citron Barney Ashton-Bullock Catherine Graham Charlotte Oliver Craig Smith James Giddings Jonathan Davidson Judith Kingston Kyle Potvin Liz Houchin Mark McGuinness Nóra Blascsók Olivia Dawson Rachael Clyne Radka Thea Otípková

Hear the poets of wave 14 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for summer 2023. wave fourteen summer 2023 Alice Stainer Aysegul Yildirim Dave Garbutt Deborah Finding Devjani Bodepudi Ed Garvey Long Hannah Linden Ian McMillan J L M Morton Jamie Woods Jerm Curtin May Chong Ramona Herdman Valerie Bence Victoria Punch

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Hear the poets of wave 27 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for autumn 2026. wave twenty-seven autumn 2026 Anna Shelton Benedicta Norell Chole Victoria Gorman Elizabeth Cook Em Gray Francesca L Rolle John Adlam McLord Selasi Azalekor Nathaniel Calhoun Niamh Hollis-Locke Paul Connolly Rachel Hafiza Rosie Barrett Simon Maddrell Tracie Renee

Hear the poets of wave 20 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for winter 2024. wave twenty winter 2024 Daragh Fleming Dion O’Reilly Graham Clifford Jane Ayers Kevin Grauke Laura Lewis-Waters Marie Marchand Pam Thompson Penny Walshe Rachel Smith Rowan Lyster Sharon Phillips Simon Alderwick T S S Fulk Wendy Pratt