Ploughshares Spring 2015

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The Spring 2015 Transatlantic issue of Ploughshares, edited by Neil Astley. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British and Irish poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down "the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic," and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.

PREFACE
John Skoyles

INTRODUCTION
Neil Astley

EDITOR PROFILE
Christina Patterson

POETRY by

Fleur Adcock
John Agard
Patience Agbabi
Dick Allen
Gillian Allnutt
Keith Althaus
Moniza Alvi
Nin Andrews
Simon Armitage
Emily Berry
Sujata Bhatt
Ryan Black
Rachael Boast
Sean Borodale
Marianne Boruch
John Burnside
Matthew Caley
Kayo Chingonyi
Polly Clark
Gillian Clarke
Sophie Collins
David Constantine
Fred D’Aguiar
Nia Davies
Louis de Paor
Imtiaz Dharker
Peter Didsbury
Stephen Dobyns
Maura Dooley
Helen Dunmore
Douglas Dunn
Menna Elfyn
Ruth Fainlight
Vicki Feaver
Elaine Feinstein
Nick Flynn
Emily Fragos
John Glenday
Vona Groarke
Philip Gross
Barbara Hamby
Choman Hardi
David Harsent
W. N. Herbert
Tracey Herd
Rita Ann Higgins
Selima Hill
Tony Hoagland
John Hodgen
Michael Hofmann
Matthew Hollis
Sarah Howe
Andrew Hudgins
Major Jackson
Jackie Kay
Suji Kwock Kim
Michael Klein
Dorianne Laux
Gwyneth Lewis
Luljeta Lleshanaku
Michael Longley
Roddy Lumsden
Thomas Lux
Aonghas MacNeacail
Olivia McCannon
Medbh McGuckian
Jamie McKendrick
Paula Meehan
Anne Michaels
Esther Morgan
Sinéad Morrissey
Helen Mort
Andrew Motion
Paul Muldoon
Grace Nichols
Sean O’Brien
Caitríona O’Reilly
Frank Ormsby
Pascale Petit
Clare Pollard
Jacob Polley
Kate Potts
Shazea Quraishi
Deryn Rees-Jones
Roger Reeves
Sophie Robinson
Michael Ryan
Lawrence Sail
Eva Salzman
Jacob Sam-La Rose
Warsan Shire
Penelope Shuttle
Ciara Shuttleworth
Aaron Smith
Austin Smith
Pauline Stainer
Anne Stevenson
Greta Stoddart
Matthew Sweeney
George Szirtes
Chrys Tobey
James Valvis
Mark Waldron
Ahren Warner
Amy Woolard
Karen McCarthy Woolf
Matthew Zapruder