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Current Issue • Vol. XLVIII No. 1 • Poetry |

Record of First Love

By Alison Clara Tan

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Alison Clara Tan is a Southeast Asian writer based in London. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in fourteen poems, Gutter, and Washington Square Review, among other publications. She is a Barbican Young Poet, a Brooklyn Poets Fellow, and a member of the London Writers Centre’s 2025 Poetics Lab.

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