Poetry

Blaze a Vanishing

by 
Alan Morrison

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Blaze A Vanishing Alan Morrison's e-book Blaze A Vanishing is available here in its entirety as a WLT web exclusive to go along with his poem “Twigworth Yews” in the November 2013 print edition. Click here to download the e-book.

Alan Morrison (alanmorrison.co.uk) is a British poet with several collections: The Mansion Gardens (2006), Picaresque (2008), A Tapestry of Absent Sitters (2009), Keir Hardie Street (2010), Captive Dragons / The Shadow Thorns (2011), Blaze a Vanishing / The Tall Skies (2013), and the forthcoming Odour of Devon Violet (2013). He edited the Caparison anthologies Emergency Verse: Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State (2011) and The Robin Hood Book: Verse Versus Austerity (2012/13) and edits The Recusant.

November 2013

“Writing the Great Recession,” a portfolio devoted to international working-class writing, headlines the November 2013 issue of WLT.

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Table of Contents

Writing the Great Recession

16 American Working-class Poets

IN EVERY ISSUE

ESSAYS

  • “So Who Has Time to Read? Mediterranean Blue-collar Noir, Part 2” by J. Madison Davis

FICTION

  • “A Single Drop of Blood” by Alexis Jenni
  • “The History Teacher” by Anzhelina Polonskaya

INTERVIEWS

  • “Reinventing Spanish as a Literary Language: A Conversation with Álvaro Enrigue” by Peter Constatine
  • “All Things French (in Love and War): An Interview with Alexis Jenni” by Dinah Assouline Stillman

POETRY

  • “Tom Smithson Dead in His Garret” by José Manuel Cardona
  • Three Poems by Juan Gelman
  • “The Donegal Hock” by James McManus
  • Two poems by Anzhelina Polonskaya
  • Four Poems by Ludwig Steinherr
  • “If I Were” by Sybil Volks
  • Four Poems by Ludwig Steinherr

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