Each Wednesday, Editor's Choice brings you a poem from a new book selected as a must-read. Our feature editor this week is Jennifer Atkinson.
Elizabeth Bradfield

A gift. This. Unfair to claim & there were others and yet this gift: a minke exhales, unseen but heard. Spot its dorsal sharp among ice, in calm-silk water. Then along and under (under) my boat, eye skyward. Sea-warbled but clear. Open. Met. Calm Water. Flank gold with diatoms. Still. Chunks of ice. Enough time enough weather enough whale enough boats for all on ship to muster, seek, find and not crowd. To drift as it circles, approaches, finds us approachable, re-approached. All balance, all sense calibrated.

 

stretched on low ice
ignored in near distance
a leopard seal yawns  
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Cover of the book, The Hungryalists
"Roars Against the Establishment"

A new book, The Hungryalists: The Poets Who Sparked a Revolution, explores the work of a group of Bengali poets who rejected colonial exemplars and caste distinctions. "The Hungryalists spoke to issues of the man on the streets. They embraced the unembraceable."  

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Cover of Bill Knott's book, I am Flying into Myself: Selected Poems, 1960 - 2014
What Sparks Poetry:
John Cotter on Bill Knott’s
"(Sergey) (Yesenin) Speaking (Isadora) (Duncan)"

"I realized eventually the intensity of my hero worship was too unwieldy, though only about six or seven months after my friends did. I also knew I’d never find my own voice if I kept imitating Bill’s. I pushed off toward other mentors—no one I interacted with personally, just voices in books—but it was never the same. Poetry was too lonely without Bill in my head." 
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