Read our most recent, controversial and exciting articles, poems and fiction.

• Time Breaks the Heart and Pool Hall School: two heavy-punching poems from JL Williams.

• Spectacle and Speculation: Reflecting on Elizabeth Bishop in the Twenty-First Century:Reading the New Editions: Frances Leviston discusses recent representation of the work of Elizabeth Bishop.

• Between ‘Helpless Right’ and ‘Forced Pow’r’:The Political Poem Today: an examination of poetry and politics by David Wheatley.

• Blue Bag: a powerful poem from Graham Fulton.

• Richard Gere’s Grand Piano and Body: two excellent poems from Katherine Leyton.

• Chalkmarks and The Key to Happiness are just a few fictional Incidents in a Mall from Ewan Morrison.

• What do I know? (Or, why I’m giving up post-modern poetry to live an irony-free life.). With recent collection Profit and Loss shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize, Leontia Flynn examins what she does and doesn’t know about post-modern poetry.

• On Living in the Real World. Aaron Kelly questions how to live in the real, morally repugnant and contradictory, world.

• Hitodama (人魂 or ‘Human Soul’), a haunting poem from Aiko Harman. First printed in Edinburgh Review 129: Japan, the poem has since been included in Salt’s The Best British Poetry of 2011.

• Propylaea a poetic treat from the hugely talented Frances Leviston.

• Alan Gillis, Interview by Aaron Kelly. The Review’s esteemed new editor being grilled on poetry, passion, place and the future of the journal.