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Hear the poets of wave 10 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for summer 2022 . wave ten summer 2022 Annick Yerem Bill Sutton Elisabeth Kelly Elizabeth M Castillo Emma Kemp Gerry Stewart Jay Whittaker Ken Cockburn Kitty Donnelly Michael McGill Penelope Shuttle Richard Jeffrey Newman Ruth Taaffe Shiksha S Dheda Simon Middleton

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

Hear the poets of wave 19 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for autumn 2024 . wave nineteen autumn 2024 Christopher Arksey Corinna Board Frances Boyle Julie Stevens Kerry Darbishire Laura Theis Lewis Wyn Davies Louise Longson Marc Alan Di Martino Michele Grieve Nicholas McGaughey Oormila V Prahlad Rhona Greene Suyin Du Bois Tom Bailey

Hear the poets of wave 4 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for autumn 2020 . wave four autumn 2020 Amelia Loulli Angela Dye Carolyn Jess-Cooke Christina Strigas Christina Thatcher Claudia Gary Elizabeth McGeown Heather Quinn Helen Ivory Jean Atkin Jo Bratten Jonaki Ray Leah Umansky Lloyd Schwartz Martin Figura Matt Merritt Melita White Mona Dash Rachael de Moravia Rennie Parker

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 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 2 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for spring 2020 . wave two spring 2020 Aki Schilz Angela T Carr Anna Saunders Claire Trévien Emma Page Georgia Hilton Helen Calcutt Jack B Bedell James Roome Jo Burns Maggie Smith Mat Riches Matthew M C Smith Neil Elder Paul Brookes Reshma Ruia Sarra Culleno Scarlett Ward Bennett Scott Elder Seanín Hughes

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 16 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for winter 2023 . wave sixteen winter 2023 Alan Buckley Conor Kelly Dorian Nightingale Faye Alexandra Rose Holly Peters Isra Hassan J-T Kelly JP Seabright Jen Feroze Jenny Wong Matthew Stewart Pascale Potvin Phil Vernon Rebecca Goss Sarah Connor

Hear poet Corinna Board read poems for wave 19 of literary poetry journal iamb. Corinna Board wave 19 autumn 2024 back next the poet Corinna Board teaches English as an additional language in an Oxford secondary school. She grew up on a farm, and her writing is often inspired by the rural environment. Her work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in And Other Poems , Anthropocene , berlin lit , Propel Magazine , Spelt Magazine , Atrium , Ink Sweat & Tears , Magma and elsewhere. Corinna won the Gloucestershire Wildlife category of the 2023 Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust poetry competition, and was commended in the 2024 Verve Poetry Festival Eco-Poetry competition. She published her debut pamphlet, Arboreal , in January 2024. the poems Picking up my prescription ‘Sometimes as an antidote to fear of death, I eat the stars.’ ~ Rebecca Elson ~ 00:00 / 01:00 There are no stars in this city. I nibble on concrete, sip cocktails of NO₂. I’m dying for a decent constellation. Would some of those neons do? Or the flashing red lights on a high-rise? I FaceTime Olivier in the Pyrenees. He points his camera at Ursa Major, Cassiopeia, Orion’s Belt … Star after star devoured through my screen. I whisper Merci , then sleep like a baby. When the woman in Boots tells me I’m glowing, I say it must be the new meds. I keep quiet about the stars. On the tube ride home, they twinkle in my stomach like a Tiffany’s heist. My uncle brings back a fox tail from the fields 00:00 / 01:09 He is carrying his rifle, brandishing the tail like a trophy. A week ago, the fox (was it this one?) got into the coop and slaughtered all the hens. My uncle is grinning. The tail is cleanly cut, bloodied at the end. It hangs from a nail in the big barn, swinging like a corpse on the gallows. For days, I'm scared to touch it. The fur is coarser than I expected. I comb it with my fingers, breathe in its musk, close my eyes and pretend it's whole. Later, I run wild with my cousins. We are foxes — and I, the eldest, am the mother, the vixen. Driven by hunger, I burn through the fields, my cubs left hiding in the ripening wheat. The wind ruffles my coat the wrong way. Too late, I pick up his scent. Field notes 00:00 / 02:02 1. field noun : an area of land, used for growing crops or keeping animals, usually surrounded by a fence. 2. Green as far as the eye can see, then the brook. Water-mint, pebbles bedraggled in weed. 3. A six-year-old girl with a net, a bucket full of bullheads. Friesian cows bellowing, tick of the fence. Where did the years go? 4. Before he died, my uncle planted a rowan tree – there in the tall grass. 5. When we first saw the barn owl, it could have been a ghost. It flew low over the field, wings whispering. 6. If I buried my heart, what would grow? Perhaps a sapling. 7. Today, I have counted three kinds of butterfly: marbled white, common blue, speckled wood. 8. Dear Field, Do you ever dream of picking yourself up and striding off over the horizon? Be honest now. 9. I don’t know what I’d do if you left. I love you, field. Please stay. 10. Are you crying or is that rain? 11. In the field, I’m a child again. All this green, all this sky. I could disappear. 12. Meadow foxtail, yellow oat, timothy. I am the field, and the field is me. I am , the field is . Publishing credits Picking up my prescription: Anthropocene (July 2024) My uncle brings back a fox tail from the fields: Modron Magazine (Issue Four) Field notes: exclusive first publication by iamb

Hear the poets of wave 22 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for summer 2025 . wave twenty-two summer 2025 Carl Alexandersson Charlotte Gann Fidel Hogan Walsh J A Lenton Julian Bishop Kate Jenkinson Katrina Naomi Kerry Trautman Loic Ekinga Mary Mulholland Patricia M Osborne Rishika Williams Samantha Terrell Sarah James Wren Wood

Hear the poets of wave 6 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for summer 2021 . wave six summer 2021 Andy Nuttall April Yee Ben Ray Charlotte Ansell Dominic Leonard Douglas Tawn Elizabeth Langemak Kathryn Bevis Kimchi Lai Michelle Penn Monica Cure Nathan Dennis Pascale Petit Róisín Ní Neachtain Shaw Worth

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 23 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for autumn 2025 . wave twenty-three autumn 2025 Barnaby Harsent Claire Orchard Eric T Racher Estelle Price Helen Laycock Hilary Sallick Hilary Watson Karan Chambers Kate Caoimhe Arthur Lysz Flo Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig Michael Burton Piero Toto Sarah Wallis Victoria Spires

Hear the poets of wave 7 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for autumn 2021 . wave seven autumn 2021 Candradasa Charlotte Knight Clare Proctor Daljit Nagra Devon Marsh Giovanna MacKenna Harula Ladd Ivor Daniel Jenny Byrne Kara Knickerbocker Peter A Samuel Tongue Sue Finch Usha Kishore Ysella Sims

Hear the poets of wave 3 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for summer 2020 . wave three summer 2020 Aaron Kent Amantine Brodeur Caleb Parkin Carrie Etter Colin Dardis Eleanor Holmes Eleanor Hooker Erik Kennedy Holly Singlehurst Jorie Graham Laura Wainwright Maria Taylor Marvin Thompson Polly Atkin Ricky Ray Roy Marshall Sascha Akhtar Victoria Kennefick Vismai Rao Zelda Chappel

Hear the poets of wave 12 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for winter 2022 . wave twelve winter 2022 Caitlin Stobie Doreen Duffy Jenny Mitchell Jeremy Wikeley Jim Newcombe Jinny Fisher Leanne Moden Louise McStravick Ruth Wiggins Sadie Maskery Samantha DeFlitch Sue Butler Susie Campbell Thomas March Zannah Kearns

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

Hear the poets of wave 24 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for winter 2025 . wave twenty-four winter 2025 Damien B Donnelly Elizabeth Gibson Ewan MacKinnon Gill Macdonald Holly Bars John Glenday Karen Pierce Gonzalez Katrina Moinet Laura Warner Morag Smith Phoebe Gilmore Pratibha Castle Rachel O’Sullivan Sophia Argyris Tom Weir