{"product_id":"2940151410014","title":"Spring 2015 Guest-Edited by Neil Astley","description":"The Spring 2015 Transatlantic issue of Ploughshares, edited by Neil Astley. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Much of the work is from accomplished British and Irish poets who are still little-known in the States. As Astley writes in his introduction, the issue aims to break down \"the illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,\" and spark a conversation that will enliven and invigorate both poetic traditions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003eJohn Skoyles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003eNeil Astley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEDITOR PROFILE\u003cbr\u003eChristina Patterson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOETRY by \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFleur Adcock\u003cbr\u003eJohn Agard\u003cbr\u003ePatience Agbabi\u003cbr\u003eDick Allen\u003cbr\u003eGillian Allnutt\u003cbr\u003eKeith Althaus\u003cbr\u003eMoniza Alvi\u003cbr\u003eNin Andrews\u003cbr\u003eSimon Armitage\u003cbr\u003eEmily Berry\u003cbr\u003eSujata Bhatt\u003cbr\u003eRyan Black\u003cbr\u003eRachael Boast\u003cbr\u003eSean Borodale\u003cbr\u003eMarianne Boruch\u003cbr\u003eJohn Burnside\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Caley\u003cbr\u003eKayo Chingonyi\u003cbr\u003ePolly Clark\u003cbr\u003eGillian Clarke\u003cbr\u003eSophie Collins\u003cbr\u003eDavid Constantine\u003cbr\u003eFred D'Aguiar\u003cbr\u003eNia Davies\u003cbr\u003eLouis de Paor\u003cbr\u003eImtiaz Dharker\u003cbr\u003ePeter Didsbury\u003cbr\u003eStephen Dobyns\u003cbr\u003eMaura Dooley\u003cbr\u003eHelen Dunmore\u003cbr\u003eDouglas Dunn\u003cbr\u003eMenna Elfyn\u003cbr\u003eRuth Fainlight\u003cbr\u003eVicki Feaver\u003cbr\u003eElaine Feinstein\u003cbr\u003eNick Flynn\u003cbr\u003eEmily Fragos\u003cbr\u003eJohn Glenday\u003cbr\u003eVona Groarke\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Gross\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Hamby\u003cbr\u003eChoman Hardi\u003cbr\u003eDavid Harsent\u003cbr\u003eW. N. Herbert\u003cbr\u003eTracey Herd\u003cbr\u003eRita Ann Higgins\u003cbr\u003eSelima Hill\u003cbr\u003eTony Hoagland\u003cbr\u003eJohn Hodgen\u003cbr\u003eMichael Hofmann\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Hollis\u003cbr\u003eSarah Howe\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Hudgins\u003cbr\u003eMajor Jackson\u003cbr\u003eJackie Kay\u003cbr\u003eSuji Kwock Kim\u003cbr\u003eMichael Klein\u003cbr\u003eDorianne Laux\u003cbr\u003eGwyneth Lewis\u003cbr\u003eLuljeta Lleshanaku\u003cbr\u003eMichael Longley\u003cbr\u003eRoddy Lumsden\u003cbr\u003eThomas Lux\u003cbr\u003eAonghas MacNeacail\u003cbr\u003eOlivia McCannon\u003cbr\u003eMedbh McGuckian\u003cbr\u003eJamie McKendrick\u003cbr\u003ePaula Meehan\u003cbr\u003eAnne Michaels\u003cbr\u003eEsther Morgan\u003cbr\u003eSinéad Morrissey\u003cbr\u003eHelen Mort\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Motion\u003cbr\u003ePaul Muldoon\u003cbr\u003eGrace Nichols\u003cbr\u003eSean O'Brien\u003cbr\u003eCaitríona O'Reilly\u003cbr\u003eFrank Ormsby\u003cbr\u003ePascale Petit\u003cbr\u003eClare Pollard\u003cbr\u003eJacob Polley\u003cbr\u003eKate Potts\u003cbr\u003eShazea Quraishi\u003cbr\u003eDeryn Rees-Jones\u003cbr\u003eRoger Reeves\u003cbr\u003eSophie Robinson\u003cbr\u003eMichael Ryan\u003cbr\u003eLawrence Sail\u003cbr\u003eEva Salzman\u003cbr\u003eJacob Sam-La Rose\u003cbr\u003eWarsan Shire\u003cbr\u003ePenelope Shuttle\u003cbr\u003eCiara Shuttleworth\u003cbr\u003eAaron Smith\u003cbr\u003eAustin Smith\u003cbr\u003ePauline Stainer\u003cbr\u003eAnne Stevenson\u003cbr\u003eGreta Stoddart\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Sweeney\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Szirtes\u003cbr\u003eChrys Tobey\u003cbr\u003eJames Valvis\u003cbr\u003eMark Waldron\u003cbr\u003eAhren Warner\u003cbr\u003eAmy Woolard\u003cbr\u003eKaren McCarthy Woolf\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Zapruder","brand":"Ploughshares","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47170591686896,"sku":"2940151410014","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151410014_p0.jpg?v=1764010087","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151410014","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}