‘Call Me Joe’ by Poul Anderson, read by Warren James on Hour 25

Thomas Dunlap: Guiding Birders

Even people with no interest in field guides know about them...

A Politics of Mere Being by Carl Phillips

When my first book of poems came out in 1992, I learned what it could mean to be seen as a political poet for no other reason than because of who or what one is...

‘A Report on the i-Smile Happiness Watch’ by Juliet Jacques

Gridlocked traffic, summer solstice, 9.15am. Upper deck 243, Dalston Junction to Goswell Road, who wouldn’t look down on this sort of commute?

Rachel Howard: Thirty-Eight

The other day a card arrived: a picture of mother, father, and child, teeth bared, cheeks pulsing with fresh blood. The baby looks more like him, with that nearly translucent-white skin.

‘An Orientation’ by Maryann Corbett

If, in the midst of this elated day, / someone took him aside with the stern warning, / Most of your life will not be like this morning...