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An excerpt from ‘Wendy Cope’ by Rory Waterman: on her ‘Saint Hilda of Whitby’
Rory Waterman writes: This is a slightly edited short excerpt from my recent book Wendy Cope (Liverpool University Press, 2021), reprinted here with thanks to the publisher. In 2018, […]
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On ‘Corrigenda for Costafine Town’ by Jake Morris-Campbell
Richie McCaffery The first edition of Alasdair Gray’s debut collection of short stories (Unlikely Stories, Mostly) carries with it a little snippet of paper saying ‘Erratum: This […]
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Two poems by Stephanie Powell
Photo by Anton Murygin on Unsplash Foxes In the backstreets the foxes are synchronised swimmers- unaware they are in the same pool, unaware they […]
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Two poems by Mat Riches
Photo by Tim Foster on Unsplash Captain’s Pond I didn’t expect to find myself beside you, swatting flies and leaves to watch fishermen watching you […]
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On ‘Map of a Plantation’ by Jenny Mitchell
Daniel Bennett The title of Jenny Mitchell’s follow-up collection to 2019’s Her Lost Language begins with a gesture to objectivity. Map of a Plantation (Indigo Dreams, 2021) […]
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Two poems by Tuesday Shannon
Photo by Khara Woods on Unsplash Catechism In the vestibule, Mum dips her hand in holy water, blesses each of her wayward flock with […]
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‘Ancestors’ – a poem by Alan Buckley
Photo by Eva Wilcock on Unsplash Ancestors Their voices – those we barely remember, those we never knew – urge us to bear witness. […]
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A psycho-geographer slipping the coordinates of time: on Tim Cumming
Julian Stannard ‘You sit/down to put into words your reckoning.’ I don’t read Tim Cumming with any expectation of the anodyne. The title of his latest […]
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Handbrake turn on a hair-pin bend: Lavinia Greenlaw and poetic feat
This essay was originally published by Wild Court on 1st March 2016. Lavinia Greenlaw will be taking part in the latest online ‘Poetry And…’ event, curated by Ruth Padel, […]
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Discovering George Mackay Brown
John Greening marks the centenary of the birth of George Mackay Brown (1921-1996), which falls this Sunday, 17th October. The June bee Bumps in the pane […]
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‘Lapis lazuli’ – a poem by Alexandra Fössinger
Photo by Shifaaz Shamoon on Unsplash Lapis lazuli On a Sardinian beach, the ambulant vendor shifts through white vesicles from lapis lazuli waves straight […]
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Poems of Community and Historical Memory: an interview with Ian Parks
Portrait of Ian Parks by Andrew Farmer Ian Parks was born in 1959 and is the author of eight collections of poems, including Shell Island, The Exile’s […]
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Two new poems by Ian Parks
An interview with Ian, in which he discusses themes explored in the following poems, is up concurrently on Wild Court here. Jarrow March Instead of […]
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An extract from ‘Book of Days’ by Phoebe Power
The following is an extract from Book of Days, a long poem recounting a journey along the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. This extract describes […]
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Three poems from ‘Starting Eleven’ by Matthew Stewart
Left: Aldershot striker Mike Ring (16 goals in 76 appearances) with a diving header Right: Midfielder Ian McDonald, flanked by Bill Shankly, signing for Liverpool before his Shots days (340 […]
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‘The Southern Belle’ – a poem by Polly McCormack
Photo by Dovi on Unsplash The Southern Belle In 1812, when the building was first built, they infused the wallpaper with beetroot juice, to achieve the […]
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An instinct for pace and balance: on Ruth Padel’s ‘Beethoven Variations’
John Greening Some composers keep themselves out of their music, but in Beethoven the life is always peeping through. It seems natural, then, for Ruth Padel to […]
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Two poems by Adam Tavel
Photo by Jack Douglass on Unsplash Somerset County Cold Case Photo, 1980 Shot from its stoop, this garden shed brims March, a ripe compendium […]
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Three poems by Karen Ng
Touya From the corner of my eye I take out the stars crush each new flame into a thousand embers Purple pits and spoiled stitches answer […]
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Two poems by Nicola Healey
Anosmia ‘The natural world is not kind.’ – ‘How viruses shape the world’, The Economist (22nd August 2020) I live to smell the flowers. I’d […]