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

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

  • ‘Landskein’: a poem by Jenny Pagdin

  • ‘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

  • Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize 2022 – winner

  • Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize 2022 – joint runners-up

  • Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize 2022 – specially commended

  • Three pamphlets reviewed by Richie McCaffery

  • ‘In the Mountains of the Monédières, by the Green Waters of the Vienne’ – a poem by Hilary Davies

  • ‘Love’s Arrow’ – a translation of Chaucer

  • ‘Cleaning the Big House’ – a poem by Martyn Crucefix

  • Pushing her own boundaries: on Alison Brackenbury’s ‘Thorpeness’

On ‘Hollow Palaces: An Anthology of Modern Country House Poems’
‘Two Visions’ – a translation from the Estonian of Mathura

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 …

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

29 June 202229 June 2022

  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

29 June 202230 June 2022

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

29 June 202229 June 2022

‘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

16 June 202217 June 2022

    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

16 June 202216 June 2022

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

16 June 202217 June 2022

    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

16 June 202216 June 2022

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

12 May 202216 June 2022

   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’

12 May 202212 May 2022

    Daniel Bennett   A sense of place abounds in Jonathan Davidson’s A Commonplace (Smith-Doorstep, 2020), and while that might seem natural from the …

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  • On ‘Hollow Palaces: An Anthology of Modern Country House Poems’ 29 June 2022
  • ‘Two Visions’ – a translation from the Estonian of Mathura 29 June 2022
  • ‘Landskein’: a poem by Jenny Pagdin 29 June 2022
  • ‘Gothic’: a poem by Mark Wynne 29 June 2022
  • On ‘The Sleep Road’ by Stewart Sanderson 16 June 2022

 

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