RocksongRocksong is a shamelessly baroque ride through the all nadirs and summits of the contemporary queer. It's a decadent book, where decadence isn't a cipher for self indulgence, but a fierce and fugitive resistance. As Audre Lorde writes 'We survived and survival breeds desire for more self'. Or, in the glowing neon precincts of Rocksong, more selves, plural. These poems flirt and confront in turns, they seduce and attack, they are tender and grotesque.

award-winning botanical artist Christina Hart-Davies celebrates our long relationship with trees

Help Me to a Getaway

and range from hard-hitting political commentary to intimate lyrical pieces – these poets refuse to perform or inspire according to tired old narratives

Plus works by Liana Badr and Muhsin al-Ramli

In this issue – rich new works that are global in impact and offer fresh

what reception will she find there

With winking intelligence and playful sleaze

‘The Cologne Epode’

a section is devoted to Duke Ellington

Ouyang Jue

adulterous affair

have selected the work of 24 female poets (from Argentina