Richie McCaffery   I told him (hoping to impress him) that I wanted to write an article on his poetry. He rolled his …

Pieter Brueghel, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c.1560     Rachel Carney   What happens when you are asked to review a book or …

  G.E. Stevens   No more wavering… Burn through the parochial states of mind. Cut and burn away to the truth.   This is Dorothy …

Leonardo da Vinci, portrait of himself as an old man, c. 1510   Dr Emily Bilman   In Book X of The Republic, Plato considered …

  The below essay appears in Jamie McKendrick’s new book The Foreign Connection: Writing on Poetry, Art & Translation, forthcoming from Legenda this spring.   …

  Charles Boyle   For a period of several weeks or maybe months in the late 1970s I believed that the world around me was …

Hoplitodromos from an Attic black-figure Panathenaic amphora, 323–322 BC (photograph Marie-Lan Nguyen)       Ben Wilkinson   Fast-forward to August of 2020 and all …

    Zakia Carpenter-Hall   A poet must perpetually ask the question, explicitly or implicitly, ‘What is it?’ What are the plants, animals, objects, etc. …

    Andreea Iulia Scridon   The name Mihai Eminescu isn’t likely to ring an immediate bell for Anglophone readers, but would certainly deserve to, …

    Chris Larkin   When I was seven or eight years old, I was desperate to own either a Sega Mega Drive or a …