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Four Bal Maidens – a sequence by Morag Smith
– Bal Maiden I – Morning Rain ‘I ain’t complaining’ she hugs herself in the thin light before the sun is properly up A chilly […]
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‘Swimming Lessons’ – a poem by Ariana Benson
Poetry And, the much-loved public events series at King’s chaired by Professor of Poetry Ruth Padel, is teaming up with the Obsidian Foundation – a new foundation for Black […]
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Two poems by Ion Corcos
A Magpie on a Downpipe I sweep white blossoms from the path, hard bristles unbending on each stroke; it is not till months later, when the […]
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‘In Concert’ – a poem by Tamar Yoseloff
Picture credit: Stephen Wells In Concert We were sitting in a crowded hall, waiting for the lights to dim – before the halls were emptied – […]
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‘Chocolate Factory’ – a poem by Peter Robinson
Chocolate Factory for Andrew McDonald Like a natural outsider over listed cobblestones to this once mews-like stable block, then chocolate factory, hence its name, on […]
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New Foundation & Poetry Retreat Launched for Black Poets
Poetry And, the much-loved public events series at King’s chaired by Professor of Poetry Ruth Padel, is teaming up with the Obsidian Foundation – a new foundation for […]
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The Poem Not Taken: Robert Frost and the inaugural tradition that isn’t
Rick de Villiers The sun shines on nothing new, saith the Preacher (and Samuel Beckett after him). But what if, on 21 January 1961, it hadn’t? What […]
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Two poems by Ross Wilson
Vital Organs ICU, Easter, 2020 An outsider looking in might imagine they were seeing the interior of a space ship; ventilators, dialysis machines, monitors surrounded […]
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Poems from ‘The Conversation’ by Jo Burns and Emily Cooper
Emily and Jo write: “What follows is a six-poem sequence taken from the manuscript of a collaborative poetry collection, The Conversation. This collection follows a conversation held between three […]
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‘Dates with the Fates’ – a short sequence by Andew Neilson
Dates with the Fates i) Clotho Her last date? Some chump called Pelops. She gave him the cold shoulder. With her men, she […]
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Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize: 2020 winners
Alice Oldacre On Being Here When you Ought to be There When bent under absent weight you tend to wander, walking on the telephone, wise […]
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‘Cakes by Carol’ – a poem by Naima Rashid
Cakes by Carol It brought a strange comfort; somewhere in the folds of fondant she felt she had stowed away dreams she had held on to […]
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Fifty Forty: on the incomplete histories of Carcanet and the LRB
Kevin Gardner One of the most pleasurable of readerly experiences is the subversive frisson of snooping into the conversational intimacy of an author’s letters. When the initial […]
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Two poems in memory of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021)
Image: detail from cover of San Francisco Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (City Lights Foundation, 2003) John Gohorry Lights Poetry is the shadow cast by our […]
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On the poetry of George Kendrick
Matthew Stewart Let’s take a forgotten poet who went from publishing with Carcanet, garnering a PBS Recommendation and receiving excellent reviews in the broadsheets in the process, […]
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‘Swimming’ – a poem by Rupinder Kaur
Swimming Jaan to meri jaan, my life. The ghosts of language sit at the tip of my tongue and sing meri jaan. There’s a tale about […]
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Two poems by Roy Marshall
Icarus’s Mother Missing from the Musee des Beaux Arts, a portrait of the slave girl, her name unimportant or forgotten, who gave birth to Icarus […]
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Two poems by Alison Brackenbury
‘Honeymoon’ from the memoirs of Helen, widow of the poet Edward Thomas They fled, by train, to a poacher Edward named ‘Dad’. His own father […]
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‘The Kill’ – a poem by Andrew Jordan
Photo by Daniel Burka on Unsplash The Kill In your room, holding the cartridge, you imagined flames packed like petals in a bud, poppy […]
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‘Masks’ – a translation by April Yee of Sebastián Núñez Torres
April writes: “Chilean poet and academic Sebastián Núñez Torres (b. 1984) explores the fracturing of self and society in Las arpas rotas (Bajo la lluvia ediciones, 2020), a […]