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

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

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

  • 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’

  • ‘Salmon Farm Blues’ – a poem by Andrew McNeillie

  • ‘Hijrah’ – a poem by Imad Khan

  • ‘The Waterspout’ – a translation of Luis Vaz de Camões

  • ‘On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble’: reading A. E. Housman

  • Two poems by Tamiko Dooley

  • Two poems by Patrick Davidson Roberts

  • Two poems by Bernard Pearson

  • Three poems by Rebecca Farmer

A statement for the importance of poems in a life: on Jonathan Davidson’s ‘A Commonplace’
‘Zaban i urdu’ – a poem by Amaan Hyder

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 …

‘Zaban i urdu’ – a poem by Amaan Hyder

12 May 202212 May 2022

Harry Grout on Unsplash           Zaban i urdu   Zaban i urdu, meaning language of the camp. In Urdu, here is idher …

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

12 May 202212 May 2022

   Andrea Sonda on Unsplash           Window in the Rock   When you glimpse it you’re crammed into a floating bathtub with …

Two poems by Matthew Paul

12 May 202212 May 2022

Frans Ruiter on Unsplash           Brian Clough in the Rijksmuseum   I had four beautiful days in Amsterdam. The weather was gorgeous, …

Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize 2022 – winner

10 May 202210 May 2022

    Gabriela Sambuccetti MA in Modern Languages, Literature and Culture, Arts & Humanities     A Migrant in a Piece of Paper   A …

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

10 May 202219 May 2022

    Jit Mun MSc Early Intervention in Psychosis, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience         New Year Moon   The luminous New …

Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize 2022 – specially commended

10 May 202210 May 2022

          Heilien Diedericks     PhD Global Health and Social Medicine, Department of Global Health & Social Medicine   Moving the family Through …

Three pamphlets reviewed by Richie McCaffery

19 April 202219 April 2022

    Richie McCaffery   It is apt that John Greening recently edited the Carcanet selection of Iain Crichton Smith’s poems. There’s an anecdote that …

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

19 April 202219 April 2022

© Hilary Davies           In the Mountains of the Monédières, by the Green Waters of the Vienne   In the mountains of …

‘Love’s Arrow’ – a translation of Chaucer

19 April 202219 April 2022

© Morgan Library, New York       The below is a translation by Mark McGuinness of a section of Troilus and Criseyde, Geoffrey Chaucer’s …

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  • A statement for the importance of poems in a life: on Jonathan Davidson’s ‘A Commonplace’ 12 May 2022
  • ‘Zaban i urdu’ – a poem by Amaan Hyder 12 May 2022
  • ‘Window in the Rock’ – a poem by Lucy Dixcart 12 May 2022
  • Two poems by Matthew Paul 12 May 2022
  • Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize 2022 – winner 10 May 2022

 

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