‘Epithalamion: A Wicklow Triptych’ by Tarn MacArthur
I. Avondale House I wanted to bring you to a place of meaning, meaning, I wanted to bring you somewhere that …
Three poems by Clare Crossman
Photo by Gary Butterfield The below poems are taken from Clare’s new collection The Mulberry Tree, forthcoming from Shoestring Press later this year. …
On Martin Booth’s ‘The Knotting Poems’
The main part of Knotting in 1884. Courtesy of the Bedfordshire County Archives. John Greening It’s unlikely that many readers will remember …
Two poems by Kathryn Simmonds
Photo by Marten Bjork Premier Inn You, who have been sought in all the lonely places, (should my mouth be berries …
Two poems by Martyn Crucefix
Enviousness You’ve fought this for so long but comes the time you understand you are second rate no more that brightness …
Devilled Almonds and Doomed Boys: some avant-garde poetry of 1920
Portrait of Edith Sitwell by Roger Fry, 1915 Mark Valentine The copy of The Wooden Pegasus (1920) by Edith Sitwell that I …
‘Pigeons’: a poem by Sarah Westcott
Pigeons ‘Men still live who, in their youth, remember pigeons; trees still live who, in their youth, were shaken by a …
Two poems by Jenny Pagdin
Noah and the catkins I was sickening for psychosis, more than sickening and you were less than two, just starting to …
‘But freedom is not so exciting’: Louis MacNeice’s Autumn Journal
Louis MacNeice by Howard Coster, nitrate negative, 1942. NPG x1624. © National Portrait Gallery, London. (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) Jonathan Hitchens ‘Oppression and …
Three poems by Richie McCaffery
© Gerry Cambridge Dead man’s beer They were bundled in a bag for life in the garage, thirty yellow-black tins of …