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Wet Grain is an annual print magazine for new poetry in English. Its fifth, most recent issue, guest-edited by Leo Boix & Nat Teitler FRSL & published in July 2024, spotlighted the work of Latinx poets living in the UK. It also featured work in translation from across Latin America.
Since 2020, the magazine has included the work of emerging poets alongside recipients of awards including the Pulitzer, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the German Book Prize, and the Eric Gregory.
Each issue, selected poets are invited to contribute a short piece of commentary on a poem included in the issue. As of Issue Five, we also publish interviews and flash essays. Covers feature commissioned etchings and are hand-printed, making each copy an original print.
Submissions are open for Issue Six, guest-edited by Nasim Luczaj, Eloise Birtwhistle, & Charles Lang, until the 4th April 2025 (see our submission guidelines here)
The magazine was founded by Christian Lemay & Patrick Romero McCafferty and is based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Issue Five, Summer 2024, guest-edited by Leo Boix & Nat Teitler
Original artwork by Julia Utreras
Emiliano Gomez / Juana Adcock / Patrizia Longhitano / Yessica Klein / Fiorella Terrazas (trans. Leo Boix) / Flor Bárcenas Feria (trans. Leo Boix) / Adriana Díaz Enciso / Daniela Avendaño (trans. Colin Bramwell) / R. Joseph Rodríguez / Nathalia Samhil Gonzalez Gutierrez / Marina Sánchez / José Buera / Isabel del Rio / Hubert Matiúwàa (trans. Juana Adcock) / Guadalupe Villaseñor (trans. Patrick Romero McCafferty) / Jacob Anthony Ramírez / Eduardo R. de Siqueira / Sim Pereira-Madder
Issue Four, Summer 2023, guest-edited by Sylee Gore
Original artwork by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese
Madeleine Lamm / Patrick James Errington / Isabelle Baafi / Caleb Leow / Kathleen Heil / Lutz Seiler (trans. Stefan Tobler) / Heidi Williamson / Sara Larsen / Rush Wick / Jed Munson / Gabriel Levine Brislin / Paul Stephenson / Rob A, Mackenzie / Agata Maszlowska / Elzbieta Wojcek-Leese / Alia Zapparova / Nur Turkmani / Laura Theis / Laura Varnam / Cristina Rivera Garza / Laura Davis / Leah Umansky / Tom Branfoot / S.J. Delaney / Imogen Reid / Rise / Roshni Gallagher / Sneha Subramanian Kanta / Lubi Barre / Samuel Tongue / Jamie Cameron / Maggie Wang
Issue Three, Summer 2022, guest-edited by Nasim Luczaj
Original artwork by Rosie Watt
Bob Beagrie / Niall Campbell / Tim Tim Cheng / Ken Cockburn / Silas Curtis / Desree / Cecily Fasham / M.J. Griffin / Jeremy Allan Hawkins / Charles Lang / David Ross Linklater / John Chinaka Onyeche / Ellen Renton / Tawona Sithole / Alan Spence / Carine Topal / Lynn Valentine / Cecilia Woloch
Issue Two, Summer 2021, co-edited with Christian Lemay
Original artwork by Andreas Christodoulidis
River Ellen MacAskill / Michael W. Thomas / Natalie Chunmin Fong / Liam Welsh / Nasim Luczaj / Alec Finlay / Robin Leiper / Stella Hervey Birrell / Richie McCaffery / Caroline Maldonaldo / Davinia Hamilton / Arthur Allen / Josh Smyth / Jack Bigglestone / Joseph Minden / Shane Johnstone / Deborah Tyler-Bennett / Alice Hill-Woods / Scott Lilley / Alice Lannon / Morag Smith / Samuel Skoog / Edgar M. Caamano / Allie Kerper / Maria Sledmere / Richard Price / Owen Gallagher / Gerry Stewart / Louis Norman / Sylee Gore
Issue One, Autumn 2020, co-edited with Christian Lemay
Original artwork by Laura Wade
Angus Reid / Ken Cockburn / Eloise Birtwhistle / Richard Price / Elle Heedles / Colin Herd / Kirsty Dunlop / Aea Varfis-van Warmelo / T. Person / Samuel Skoog / Martin Breul / Christopher Barkley / Mike Farren / Julie-ann Rowell / Shirley Nicholson / Tinashe Mushakavanhu / Rupert Loydell / Hamish Swanson / George Sandifer-Smith / Scott Lilley / Carl Alexandersson / Olivia Rafferty / Giovanna MacKenna / Stephen Wade / Sylee Gore / Nel Goenas / Janet Murray / David Canning