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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 🌱🌀

I’ve 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 Finlay’s 1970 poem ‘Catameringue’. More to come!

🌀aswirl is everywhere🌀

Spring is coming 👀🌱🌀

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 🖨️🖨️🖨️

(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 🌱🌀

Week 4 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

Lorine Niedecker

Submissions for the spring issue close in 1 week! 🌱🌀

Now reading 🪐🇧🇷

Submissions remain OPEN for the spring issue. We’ve received some excellent work so far – keep it coming! 🌱🌀

It’s 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 ✉️🌀

something magic still exists

A new year in Brighton, a new year for aswirl: submissions are now OPEN for the spring issue 🌀🌱Send in your short, minimal and concrete poems by 30th January.

4) Complete Haiku by Matsuo Bashō trans. Andrew Fitzsimmons (University of California Press) – incredible to read the full journey in chronological order (with excellent notes on each poem!). 🎋

3) Collected Poems by Mary Ellen Solt (Primary Information) – five decades of inventive work by the pioneering concrete poet. 🌸

2) What I Like about a Cloud is Its Unpredictability by Iona Lee (Trickhouse Press) – dynamic erasure poetry based on what3words. ☁️

1) BONÚS Poetry by Andrí Snær Magnason trans. Andrí Snær Magnason And Elisabet Jóhannesdóttir (Mál og Menning) – Dante's divine comedy reimagined in an Icelandic supermarket. 🐷

The editor's favourite poetry books read this year. 📚🌀 (clockwise from top left) :–

One of the editor’s favourite books of 2025: Thomas A Clark’s ‘thrums’ on @carcanet.bsky.social #beattentive

Two new Oo Press postcards, Chaos by Felix Delandre and Straitjacket by Charlotte Jung. £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 ‘100 Poets, 1 Poem each’, a Classical Japanese poetry anthology and one of the editor’s favourites 💯🌀

Winter is here! ❄️🌀 With poems by Alec Finlay, Mark Rutter, Mark Valentine, Leia Butler, Ryan Hooper and more. This is a fantastic issue – on sale now!

Winter is coming… ❄️🌀

Quoin 49: expenſes, (1953 S)