The Penguin book of the prose poem: from Baudelaire to Anne Carson

The expansion of the prose poem / Jeremy Noel-Tod

The end of days / Golan Haji

Merry Christmas from Hegel / Anne Carson

Going nowhere, getting somewhere / Vahni Capildeo

Children are the orgasm of the world / Hera Lindsay Bird

Antico Adagio / Peter Gizzi

Knife / Rod Mengham

A woman shopping / Anne Boyer

Notes towards a race riot scene / Bhanu Kapil

"There were barnacles ..." / Sarah Howe

from Letter against the firmament / Sean Bonney

from Citizen: an American lyric / Claudia Rankine

My funeral / Peter Manson

Flower, quarter, mask / John Fuller

Reclaiming a beloved city / Clifton Gachague

Imagined sons 9 : Greek salad / Carrie Etter

Place name : flog man / Kei Miller

Rape joke / Patricia Lockwood

from Fairies / Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

from Mystériuses / Éric Suchère

Some fears / Emily Berry

from Odes to TL61P / Keston Sutherland

The mysterious arrival of an unusual letter / Mark Strand

Chicken / Cathy Wagner

Birthweights / Chris McCabe

Other things / Alvin Pang

from Adventures in Shangdu / Cathy Park Hong

Cry break / Paige Ackerson-Kiely

Short prayer to sound / Vivek Narayana

Homeless heart / John Ashbery

Black sunlight / D.S. Marriott

Nightmare pink / Elena Penga

Conversations about home (at the deportation centre) / Warsan Shire

O elegant giant / Laura Kasischke

Via negativa / Jane Monson

The experience / Simon Armitage

Folkways / Anthony Joseph

from Virtual airport / Matthew Welton

Photographs, undeveloped / Ágnes Lehóczky

from Folklore / Tim Atkins

Edith / Sophie Robinson

The wren / Jen Hadfield

from Bird bird / Jeff Hilson

The hornsman / Bill Griffiths

from The idylls / Maurice Riordan

Blue dog / Luke Kennard

If / Sina Queyras

Fiddleheads / Seamus Heaney

Captain of the lighthouse / Togara Muzanenhamo

from Angle of yaw / Ben Lerner

The phases of the moon in London / Amjad Nasser

Corruption / Srikanth Reddy

from echolocatin / Mani Rao

from Chapter E / Christian Bök

Denigration / Harryette Mullen

A hardworking peasant from the idyllic countryside / Linh Dinh

Ted's head / Rod Smith

Hosea: a commentary / Charles Boyle

The skull ring / Chelsey Minnis

from The weather / Lisa Robertson

Ode / Lisa Jarnot

from Letters to Wendy's / Joe Wenderoth

The most sensual room / Masayo Koike

The cough / Barbara Guest

Cinema-going / Ian Hamilton Finlay

from Joan of Arc / Nathalie Quintane

Neglected knives / Kritín Ómarsdóttir

Little corona / Don Paterson

Seoul's dinner / Kim Hyesoon

Christopher Robin / Czesław Miłosz

Returns to harmony 3 / Agha Shahid Ali

Thought (I) / Esther Jansma

The poet / Eileen Myles

Prose poem / Ron Padgett

from Kuchh Vakya / Udayan Vajpeyi

from Lawn of excluded middle / Rosmarie Waldrop

The word-gulag / Abdellatif Laâbi

Dustie-fute / David Kinloch

dropped on the ground · the small coin / Zhou Yaping

from Short talks / Anne Carson

In love with Raymond Chandler / Margaret Atwood

Letters / Clark Coolidge

What no one could have told them / C.D. Wright

An anointing / Thylias Moss

Man with a mower / Jenny Bornholdt

Deer dancer / Joy Harjo

from The stumbling block its index / Brian Catling

Chekhov: a sestina / Mark Strand

Inflation / Carol Rumens

Quaker oats / Rita Dove

from The world doesn't end / Charles Simic

Human wishes / Robert Hass

Burnt hair / Meena Alexander

The Hanoi market / Yusef Komunyakaa

reading / joanne burns

The first week of mourning / Shang Qin

The dogs / Yves Bonnefoy

from My life / Lyn Hejinian

The souvenir / Dan Pagis

A walk through the museum / Ánges Nemes Nagy

Hearts / Laurie Duggan

The land of counterpane / Lee Harwwod

from C / Peter Reading

Many musicians practice their mysteries while I am cooking / Bink Noll

Or else / Christopher Middleton

abglanz / reflected gleam / Wulf Kirsten

Honey / James Wright

A vernacular tale / Peter Didsbury

The colonel / Carolyn Forché

Meeting Ezra Pound / Miroslav Holub

Goodtime Jesus / James Tate

Vanity, Wisconsin / Maxine Chernoff

Gay full story / Bernadette Mayer

from Logbook / Tom Raworth

The colors of night / N. Scott Momaday

Portrait of A.E. (an artful fairy tale) / Elke Erb

Chile / Ottó Orbán

Scissors / Shuntarö Tanikawa

A caterpillar / Robert Bly

Cloistered / Seamus Heaney

Ape / Russel Edson

from The wild rose / Ken Smith

Chimes of silence / Wole Soyinka

from Mercian hymns / Geoffrey Hill

from Shooting script / Adrienne Rich

The bookcase / Tomas Tranströmer

For John Clare / John Ashberty

Milk / James Schuyler

from it / Inger Christensen

A case / Gael Turnbull

An old-fashioned traveller on the trade routes / Rosemary Tonks

Strayed crab / Elizabeth Bishop

The flag / Pablo Neruda

Vocabulary / Wisława Szymborska

Catherine of Siena / Elizabeth Jennings

from City / Roy Fisher

Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges

from Letters to James Alexander / Jack Spicer

Hermes, dog and star / Zbigniew Herbert

Where the tennis court was ... / Eugenio Montale

A supermarket in California / Alan Ginsberg

Clock / Pierre Reverdy

Meditations in an emergency / Frank O'Hara

Love letter to King Tutankhamun / Dulce María Loynaz

The clerk's vision / Octavio Paz

Around the star's throne / Hans Arp

The god of war / Bertolt Brecht

The swift / René Char

Phrase / Aimé Césaire

Street cries / Luis Cernuda

Rain / Francis Ponge

The pleasures of the door / Francis Ponge

Crate / Francis Ponge

from Vigils / John Lehmann

Nijinksi / George Seferis

The right meaning / César Vallejo

Blue notebook, no. 10 / Daniil Kharms

Bourgeois news / Charles Madge

Lozanne / David Gasgoyne

In praise of glass / Gabriela Mistral

from The orators / W.H. Auden

My occupations / Henri Michaux

Force of habit / André Breton and Paul Eluard

Sunflowers are already black gunpowder / Anzai Fuye

The dog's retort / Lu Xun

Snow / Lu Xun

Son / Saint-John Perse

Hell is graduated / Max Jacob

A day / Rabindranath Tagore

from Kora in hell: improvisations / William Carlos Williams

Tired / Fenton Johnson

Pulmonary tuberculosis / Katherine Mansfield

Hysteria / T.S. Eliot

Spring day / Amy Lowell

The moon / Juan Ramón Jiménez

London notes / Jessie Dismoor

Street circus / Pierre Reverdy

from Tender buttons / Gertrude Stein

Winter night / Georg Trakl

from Scented leaves- from a Chinese jar / Allen Upward

Painting / Paul Claudel

Absinthia taetra / Ernest Dowson

The pipe / Stéphane Mallarmé

The disciple / Oscar Wilde

The master / Oscar Wilde

from By the waters of Babylon / Emma Lazarus

After the flood / Arthur Rimbaud

Sideshow / Arthur Rimbaud

Genie / Arthur Rimbaud

The end of the world / Ivan Turgenev

On the sea / Ivan Turgenev

The stranger / Charles Beaudelaire

Windows / Charles Beaudelaire

The bad glazier / Charles Beaudelaire

The madman / Aloysius Bertrand

The mason / Aloysius Bertrand

Haarlem / Aloysius Bertrand.