The special Ploughshares issue features selections by Neil Astley, editor of Bloodaxe Books. The poems chosen for this issue aim to bridge the “illogical divide between readerships on either side of the Atlantic,” and hopefully spark a conversation that will invigorate both literary traditions.

Included are Pitt poets Aaron Smith, (Blue on Blue Ground and Appetite); Barbara Hamby (Babel, All-Night Lingo Tango and On the Street of Divine Love), and John Hodgen, (Grace and Heaven and Earth Holding Company).

The spring 2015 issue is available in print and in digital format on pshares.org