Issue thirteen was due to publish in one week but a printing error was discovered during our quality control checks. It will need to be reprinted and remade, which will push back the publication date by a week or two. Thanks for your patience π±π
Iβve been having a lot of fun with these minimalist concrete poems for children! Like every poet, I love playing with words. This series has been inspired by Ian Hamilton Finlayβs 1970 poem βCatameringueβ. More to come!
πaswirl is everywhereπ
Spring is coming ππ±π
I do miss working at a bigger office where it was possible to print my zine for eighteen months on an industrial printer without anyone noticing π¨οΈπ¨οΈπ¨οΈ
(for E)
we will walk a little way
behind the others
giving words to what
violence did to us
wondering if the un-
ending has an ending
we will trust that love
can be trusted again.
5.II.26
(where E could be everyone, or anyone, and is always someone)
The submission window closes at midnight tonight! Get those last-minute poems in quick π±π
Week 4 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.
Lorine Niedecker
Submissions for the spring issue close in 1 week! π±π
Now reading πͺπ§π·
Submissions remain OPEN for the spring issue. Weβve received some excellent work so far β keep it coming! π±π
Itβs always nice to look back on a year of publishing and forward to another. aswirl is back for its fourth year and 2026 subscriptions are now on sale βοΈπ
something magic still exists
A new year in Brighton, a new year for aswirl: submissions are now OPEN for the spring issue ππ±Send in your short, minimal and concrete poems by 30th January.
4) Complete Haiku by Matsuo BashΕ trans. Andrew Fitzsimmons (University of California Press) β incredible to read the full journey in chronological order (with excellent notes on each poem!). π
3) Collected Poems by Mary Ellen Solt (Primary Information) β five decades of inventive work by the pioneering concrete poet. πΈ
2) What I Like about a Cloud is Its Unpredictability by Iona Lee (Trickhouse Press) β dynamic erasure poetry based on what3words. βοΈ
1) BONΓS Poetry by AndrΓ SnΓ¦r Magnason trans. AndrΓ SnΓ¦r Magnason And Elisabet JΓ³hannesdΓ³ttir (MΓ‘l og Menning) β Dante's divine comedy reimagined in an Icelandic supermarket. π·
The editor's favourite poetry books read this year. ππ (clockwise from top left) :β
One of the editorβs favourite books of 2025: Thomas A Clarkβs βthrumsβ on @carcanet.bsky.social #beattentive
Two new Oo Press postcards, Chaos by Felix Delandre and Straitjacket by Charlotte Jung. Β£5 for both including postage. Buy at Oo-press.com/postcard-poems
(The anthology is on display at @britishlibrary.bsky.social)
A reminder that issue twelve is now on sale!
A beautiful 1673 edition of β100 Poets, 1 Poem eachβ, a Classical Japanese poetry anthology and one of the editorβs favourites π―π
Winter is here! βοΈπ With poems by Alec Finlay, Mark Rutter, Mark Valentine, Leia Butler, Ryan Hooper and more. This is a fantastic issue β on sale now!
Winter is comingβ¦ βοΈπ
Quoin 49: expenΕΏes, (1953 S)
