The FountainThe Fountain opens on the Viennese U Bahn, emerging into startling winter sunlight. This image of subterranean eruption is one of many in the book, which returns obsessively to real and figurative fountains. Isaac Nowell's fountain is a social and mythical locus, the source to which history returns and is recycled. Roaming freely between classical and contemporary registers, Nowell's twelve line poems feel less like narratives or speeches than

Nkosi Nkululeko

The front cover features an adaptation of two lines from Ali Lewis’s poem ‘Leisure on a Red Background’ from the issue

Luisa Muradya

With reviews by Rowland Bagnall of Jana Prikryl’s Midwood

Mary Jean  Chan

Rosa Campbell

Joyelle McSweeney

She tears down the usual social structures as if they were nothing'

– Andrew Wynn Owen

The Fountain opens on the Viennese U-Bahn

Kristín excels at creating pleasurable tension

Jake Goldwasser