‘Let the Parts of the Flower Speak’: a poem by Mona Arshi
‘Poetry And – Human Rights’, a free discussion and meet-the-author book signing with prize-winning poet and lawyer Mona Arshi and Shadow Attorney General and member of the …
‘Polynya’: a poem by Helen Mort
‘Poetry And – Women in the Arctic’, a free event – in partnership with Hercules Editions – curated by Ruth Padel, with poet Helen Mort, travel author …
‘Abducted’: on a poem by Stanley Kunitz
(photograph by Lynn Saville: www.lynnsaville.com) Martina Evans Although I know the month and the day, I don’t know the year I discovered Stanley …
Two poems by Adam Warne
This summer saw the release of Adam Warne’s debut pamphlet, Suffolk Bang, published by Gatehouse Press. Warne’s fractured, ‘spooked songs’ draw on folklore and …
Three poems by Sarah Law
Below are three poems from Sarah Law’s new pamphlet My Converted Father, recently published by Broken Sleep Books. Hobbies I’ve …
Two poems by Julie Irigaray
Bologna A terracotta forest of distorted towers: medieval Manhattan where Dante wandered. Madonnas nestled at the corner of each via: mounds …
Two poems by Richard O’Brien
Photo credit: Adrian Pope You & me & the incredibly distant island universes 1. The man behind the glass …
Hart Crane in Greenwich Village
(photograph by Walker Evans) Francesca Bratton In his 1921 flâneur’s guide to New York City, Hints to Pilgrims, the dramatist and essayist Charles …
Three poems by Richard Skinner
Below are three poems from Richard Skinner’s new pamphlet The Malvern Aviator, recently published by Smokestack Books. Dark Nook I am Egbert …
A poem by Hilary Davies
Below is a poem from the sequence ‘Rhine Fugue’ by Hilary Davies, which appears in her fourth collection, Exile and the Kingdom (Enitharmon, 2016). …