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    Everyday Creativity: Inside the Minds of a Painter and a Poet

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    Two poems by Iain Britton

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    ‘Garden God’: a poem by Kevin Cahill

  • 1. John Greening high res (photographer Adrian Bullers)

    Two poems by John Greening

  • Rachel and tree

    Two poems by Rachel Piercey

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    Three poems by William Wootten

  • Hoplitodromos from an Attic black-figure Panathenaic amphora, 323–322 BC (photograph Marie-Lan Nguyen)

    ‘All the Soul’s Endeavour’: where did the poetry of running go?

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    More Memorable than Sweetness: on Li-Young Lee’s poem ‘Always a Rose’

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    Three poems by Jane Lovell

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    ‘The Water in the Pond Considers Narcissus’: a poem by Andre Bagoo

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    Three poems by Oliver Comins

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    ‘All the Roads that Lead to Eminescu’: on the great Romanian poet

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    Two Pintle poems by Rory Waterman

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    Three poems by Alison Brackenbury

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    From ‘the garden sonnets’: three poems by Andrew McMillan

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    Pixel Perfect: Stephen Sexton’s ‘If All the World and Love Were Young’

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    Thom Gunn’s carnival: a radical inside job

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    Two poems by Lisa Kelly

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    ‘Allotment Evening’: a poem by Helen Calcutt

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    ‘Alfreton Town 0, Brackley Town 1’: a poem by Rory Waterman

Island1
Everyday Creativity: Inside the Minds of a Painter and a Poet
Iain B
Two poems by Iain Britton
Island1

Everyday Creativity: Inside the Minds of a Painter and a Poet

25 November 201927 November 2019

Miranda Boulton / Island Series 12, 2018 / monoprint with gouache 39 x 48cm     Victoria Best   For a year and a half, …

Iain B

Two poems by Iain Britton

25 November 201926 November 2019

      from Windows   In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open …

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‘Garden God’: a poem by Kevin Cahill

25 November 201925 November 2019

        Garden God   Easing her flip-flops and ectopic body down the lamp-post, this grasshopper of a girl fringed with electricity from São …

1. John Greening high res (photographer Adrian Bullers)

Two poems by John Greening

5 November 20195 November 2019

        Villa D’Este   More water, extravagant upshootings and downpourings of it, unbottled from the veins of a Borgia. Such force and power …

Rachel and tree

Two poems by Rachel Piercey

5 November 20195 November 2019

        Small griefs,   like looking up from the page and realising that the train, for quite some time, has been moving through …

FullSizeRender

Three poems by William Wootten

21 October 201922 October 2019

          Mindfulness   Imagine truly being in the present, Our every thought upon a plane like one Mapped out by Euclid. Here, …

Hoplitodromos from an Attic black-figure Panathenaic amphora, 323–322 BC (photograph Marie-Lan Nguyen)

‘All the Soul’s Endeavour’: where did the poetry of running go?

21 October 201922 October 2019

Hoplitodromos from an Attic black-figure Panathenaic amphora, 323–322 BC (photograph Marie-Lan Nguyen)       Ben Wilkinson   Fast-forward to August of 2020 and all …

LYL

More Memorable than Sweetness: on Li-Young Lee’s poem ‘Always a Rose’

9 October 20199 October 2019

    Zakia Carpenter-Hall   A poet must perpetually ask the question, explicitly or implicitly, ‘What is it?’ What are the plants, animals, objects, etc. …

IMGLOVELL

Three poems by Jane Lovell

9 October 20199 October 2019

        The pool below the oak   Remember this: a driftway brimming cow parsley, bramble, its green beaded fruits; the field into which …

MJ_Andre Bagoo_20151209022

‘The Water in the Pond Considers Narcissus’: a poem by Andre Bagoo

2 October 20192 October 2019

image © Marlon James       The Water in the Pond Considers Narcissus   He looks at me and sees right through me, as …

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Essays, opinion and thought on poetry. Based in the English Department of King's College London.
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