On ‘Hollow Palaces: An Anthology of Modern Country House Poems’
Rishi Dastidar An odd place to start but bear with. The Fence, a new-ish, waggish magazine (think Private Eye meets Popbitch) shared …
‘Two Visions’ – a translation from the Estonian of Mathura
Below is an English version of the two-part poem ‘Kaks Nägemust’ (‘Two Visions’) by the Estonian poet, Mathura. Winner of the Gustav Suits Poetry …
‘Landskein’: a poem by Jenny Pagdin
Photo by Dagmara Dombrovska on Unsplash Landskein The hut tilted and in came the tide, gathering jars and books from …
‘Gothic’: a poem by Mark Wynne
‘The Nightmare’ by John Henry Fuseli, oil on canvas, 1781 Gothic Where are you now? At the first flush …
On ‘The Sleep Road’ by Stewart Sanderson
Matthew Stewart In his first full collection, The Sleep Road (Tapsalterie, 2022), Stewart Sanderson addresses several issues that are currently popular among …
‘Church Crawling’: a poem by John Greening
Fotheringhay © Kevin Gardner Church Crawling for Kevin Gardner Leighton Bromswold Yes, locked, of course. And once we find …
‘Ballad of the Outer Life’: from the German of Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Below is a translation by James Owens of the poem ‘Ballade des äußeren Lebens’ by the Austrian poet, novelist and essayist Hugo von …
Two poems by Hamish Whyte
Photo by Michael Mahood on Unsplash From the Sea-window The tide’s going out. The heron stalks the rock pools. A …
‘Window in the Rock’ – a poem by Lucy Dixcart
Andrea Sonda on Unsplash Window in the Rock When you glimpse it you’re crammed into a floating bathtub with …
A statement for the importance of poems in a life: on Jonathan Davidson’s ‘A Commonplace’
Daniel Bennett A sense of place abounds in Jonathan Davidson’s A Commonplace (Smith-Doorstep, 2020), and while that might seem natural from the …