Issue One - Exit Wounds - Max Wallis
And here we end Issue One
The Aftershock Review
Backed by Arts Council England, The Aftershock Review is a radical poetry journal of survival and aftermath—publishing fierce, necessary work on trauma, queerness, class, madness, and recovery. Print ISSN 2976-9752 Online ISSN 2976-9760
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'The London McDevitt', 'Fever' and 'The Dawning' by Suzi Feay, Issue One
i.m. Niall McDevitt - 'So light you almost seemed to float / On golden feet by Tyburn brook and river Fleet'
An Ecoshock Has Landed
Ecoshock proof copy has arrived and it is BEAUTIFUL.
Issue One - Hugo Williams, 'The Art Scene'
'to everyone's delight / the bus shelters from Auschwitz / have arrived safely in Piccadilly'
Issue One - Section XII - Pele Cox, Jane Burn, Erika Przibram Wallis and Rosie Garland
Another quick note today as I’m busy typesetting Ecoshock and our Aftershock Poet collections.
Ecoshock is Coming!
Featuring new poetry by Imtiaz Dharker, Glyn Maxwell, Di Slaney, Pascale Petit and more. What does it mean to love a living world while the systems around us unmake it?
3 Poems by Rachael Boast - Section XII, Issue One
'Skin, stretched out / like the sky –' (Aside: I used to keep my tax details in my copy of Sidereal)
Issue One - Section XII - John McCullough (5 Poems)
I’ve known John McCullough ever since he won the Polari Prize, in 2021, for his collection The Frost Fairs. (My pamphlet, Modern Love, was shortlisted, too.) Big love, John…!
Issue One - Section XII - Dream Logic / Elegy / Afterglow - Part One
ft. Jacqueline Saphra, Richard Skinner
What I’m Looking For When I Read Submissions
Issue Four is still open today. "there are only so many poems that can fit inside it before it stops being a magazine and starts being a shed"
Issue Four is Still Open
Submit today!
Issue One - Section XI - Existence in Ruins
Katy Evans-Bush, Rhian Elizabeth and Gwyneth Lewis
Final Days Approach for Ecoshock Submissions
Out in July - submit now!
LONGLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZES 2026
Di Slaney and Polly Atkin have been longlisted for Best Single Poem for their work in Issue One of The Aftershock Review
Issue One - Section X - Pop Vision / Leavecore ft Sam Riviere, Rishi Dastidar, Andy Jackson and Sophie Hall
After trauma, there is still poetry. And sometimes, thank God, it is weird.
Read Maura Dooley’s poem ‘Acute’ from Issue Three today!
‘The line of trust runs at 45°, / the point of intersection changing // from nursery to nursing home’
Issue Three has arrived
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Issue One - Section IX - Part Two - Clare Shaw and Nuala Watt
Stairs know a great deal / about ghosts. They are - / predictably - a symbol of change.
Issue One - Section IX part one - System / Crash - ft Becky Cherriman, Madailín Burnhope
The nurse reels out / the padding from the entrance to my womb
2 years, 3 months ago I got in an uber fully intending to jump off a bridge in London
How Aftershock began
Section VIII - Jackie Hagan - An Orbit of Love and Survival
ft. poems by Jackie Hagan, Miles Hadfield and Gerry Potter from Issue One