OXFORD REVIEW 
of BOOKS

PATRICK ROMERO McCAFFERTY - 'Over every coast a yellow parasail registers the weighty flit / of a stingray the size of Scotland'.

KATIE KIRKPATRICK - 'three warm bodies in a fridge, / feathers stretching out into the corridor, / not apologising for taking up space.'

JED MUNSON - 'The caveat is essential: the delusion is sincere. // I’m entitled to my obscurity / and this megaphone as an American'

ANDREW WYNN OWEN - 'I found that I had clambered a steep mountain. / Up there I saw a shelter / with crenellations and a fountain.'

GEOFFREY NUTTER - 'What can I tell you about Sister Cities? / You are not one, but a succession of identities, / like them.'

ELENA KARINA BYRNE - 'Suppose, pulling yourself apart, you didn't come / in one piece, / and like language, had to be put back together'

PHILIP HANCOCK - 'An assortment of sticks / sprouts from a five litre tin / on the work bench.'

KATE McLOUGHLIN - 'At midnight, at the border, the train, / Which had roared through birch forests, / Stopped.'

MAYA C POPA - 'The clipper without / sail or shroud, // a shell through which / the city gleamed'

HEIDI WILLIAMSON - 'Unexpectedly there were complications. / Expectedly the doctors said to abort.'

ANDREW MCNEILLIE - 'I remember how the Foster brothers / trained their birds in stages'

MAGGIE WANG - 'they used to call this town hell made of ice / their lips would tremble'

FASASI ABDULROSHEED OLADIPUPO - 'The narration said it is Shaytān trying to take us back into its darkness.'

NATALIE PERMAN - 'I pulled the moth of a memory away from the lampshade / with a toothpick'

PAUL STEPHENSON - 'the truth/crumbled into the blue linoleum of the hangar-like studio'

JEN FRANTZ - You are the pilot of your own sanity.

HELENA AEBERLI – 'I want to unpeel the universe / with my fingernails / and dig out the planets'

SALAWU OLAJIDE – 'At the back of the yellow container is the makeshift reception...'

CIA MANGAT – 'swishing water from the bottle between my lips I witnessed feet like pale fish overlapping'

The following collages were produced by a collaboration between Industry Magazine and the Oxford Review of Books. Artists illustrated in...