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  • On ‘Summer/Break’ by Richie McCaffery

  • On ‘Central Air’ by George Bilgere

  • Three poems by Camille Francois

  • Three translations of Osip Mandelstam

  • ‘Not Harlem but Close’: a poem by Idman Omar

  • ‘Aged’: a poem by Stuart Henson

  • ‘Silence’: a poem by Jack Houston

  • Two poems by Tim Scott

  • On ‘Hollow Palaces: An Anthology of Modern Country House Poems’

  • ‘Landskein’: a poem by Jenny Pagdin

  • ‘Two Visions’ – a translation from the Estonian of Mathura

  • ‘Gothic’: a poem by Mark Wynne

  • On ‘The Sleep Road’ by Stewart Sanderson

  • ‘Church Crawling’: a poem by John Greening

  • ‘Ballad of the Outer Life’: from the German of Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  • Two poems by Hamish Whyte

  • ‘Window in the Rock’ – a poem by Lucy Dixcart

  • A statement for the importance of poems in a life: on Jonathan Davidson’s ‘A Commonplace’

  • ‘Zaban i urdu’ – a poem by Amaan Hyder

  • Two poems by Matthew Paul

On ‘Summer/Break’ by Richie McCaffery
On ‘Central Air’ by George Bilgere

On ‘Summer/Break’ by Richie McCaffery

18 July 202219 July 2022

      Declan Ryan   Richie McCaffery’s third collection, Summer/Break (Shoestring, 2022), is one of quiet peril. Everywhere one looks there is a quest, however …

On ‘Central Air’ by George Bilgere

18 July 202220 July 2022

    Neil Elder   In America, George Bilgere is widely published and revered, winner of a Pushcart Prize and a regular in many of the …

Three poems by Camille Francois

18 July 202219 July 2022

Photo by Mediocre Studio on Unsplash           She puts away childish things   Early mornings – I would turn no light …

Three translations of Osip Mandelstam

18 July 202219 July 2022

    Alistair Noon writes: Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) grew up in St. Petersburg and published his first book, Stone, in 1913. One more volume followed …

‘Not Harlem but Close’: a poem by Idman Omar

18 July 202220 July 2022

Photo by Ben Allan on Unsplash           Not Harlem but Close   The place that produced me was heavy as the …

‘Aged’: a poem by Stuart Henson

18 July 202219 July 2022

          Aged   I’m thinking again of Gallagher’s strat. You can’t get that sweated scrubbed-out look from a custom shop, and …

‘Silence’: a poem by Jack Houston

18 July 202219 July 2022

Photo by bennoptic on Unsplash           Silence   A squirrel scampers the wall of the nature reserve In this idyll I’m …

Two poems by Tim Scott

18 July 202219 July 2022

          The Form of an Armoured Car (Belfast, 1977)   A Saracen’s squat tonnage shudders through the lines of flat-faced houses. …

On ‘Hollow Palaces: An Anthology of Modern Country House Poems’

29 June 202230 June 2022

    Rishi Dastidar   An odd place to start but bear with. The Fence, a new-ish, waggish magazine (think Private Eye meets Popbitch) shared …

‘Landskein’: a poem by Jenny Pagdin

29 June 202219 July 2022

Photo by Dagmara Dombrovska on Unsplash         Landskein   The hut tilted and in came the tide, gathering jars and books from …

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  • On ‘Summer/Break’ by Richie McCaffery 18 July 2022
  • On ‘Central Air’ by George Bilgere 18 July 2022
  • Three poems by Camille Francois 18 July 2022
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  • ‘Not Harlem but Close’: a poem by Idman Omar 18 July 2022

 

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