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Our vast archive now includes over 280 issues, with contributions from some of the most exciting and radical writers of our times. Key contributors include Octavio Paz, Laura Riding, Christopher Middleton, John Ashbery, Les Murray, Patricia Beer, W.S. Graham, Eavan Boland, Jorie Graham, Donald Davie, C.H. Sisson, Sinead Morrissey, Sasha Dugdale, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, and many others.
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Three Poems Recurring Dream of the Revolving DoorThe revolving door
Paddled its flat hands through space, like a clock,
But widdershins, orbiting the floor
At the pace of an adult’s brisk walk.
You were four, or very small,
And prone to race or balk,
And skittered ahead into the tall
Diminishing wedge
Of air and light, leaving me to push a wall
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