‘Blood in the Sky’: a poem by Alan Zhukovski
Blood in the Sky A mortar attack hit a new condominium, built just a year ago, mixing lost lives with debris, …
Marratide: William Martin’s Chorography of County Durham
‘Cuthbert’s brief dream / And high resting place / Here before Durham’ (s.16): Warden Law by William Martin, part of ‘Wiramutha Helix’ …
A poem from ‘Fighters, Losers’ by Declan Ryan
Below is a poem from Declan Ryan’s new pamphlet, Fighters, Losers, published this week by New Walk Editions and available to buy here. Declan …
Three poems by Kate Behrens
Dream Lover Next to a Spanish river, I tell him my body is ruined. Not existing, he doesnʼt mind: I like …
‘Rhiannon’: a poem by John Fuller
©Paul Stuart Rhiannon 1 One evening, having dined in my estate Among my many men, merry and wise, I took …
‘The Poet As Witness’: CD Wright & The Art of Curating the Past
Paul Stephenson How do we look at a difficult past? Carolyn Forché has put forward the notion of ‘poetry of witness’ for a …
‘Notes from Sarajevo’: a poem by Scott Elder
Notes From Sarajevo …a bullet in flight bears no sound The city’s empty but for wind varying shades of darkness …
Three poems by Jennifer Lee Tsai
Another Language When I speak in Cantonese, I’m almost a different person. Louder, brighter. The seven tones, ascending, descending like musical …
Two new poems by John Greening
The following poems appear in John Greening’s new collection, The Silence, published by Carcanet in June 2019. from The Silence …
Making the Cut: John Greening on editing poems
John Greening I often quote Basil Bunting’s advice to young poets, that you should ‘cut out every word you dare’. Bunting certainly practised …