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Three poems by Matthew Stewart
Happy Birthday …You clear them away, usher in a future not featuring you. Michael Laskey, ‘Birthday Cards’ While hunting the posh cutlery for my cousin’s […]
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Two poems by Patrick Davidson Roberts
The Train The concern, unspoken amongst us, was whether goodwill would hold. We’d been on the road for weeks; children walking alongside the wagons until they […]
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‘Waterland’: a poem by Yvonne Reddick
Waterland There are still pike in Jesus Ditch. The length of three finger-joints, quicker than dactyls. Gone before you can say ‘Jack Pickerel.’ Drowned land, drained land, […]
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‘Dear Mother You’re Dying’: a poem by Aaron Kent
Dear Mother You’re Dying You are wasting away, you have cavernous sinuses and hollow flesh. Eat gracefully: there are those that are starving, you told us […]
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‘Mandrake and Scammony’: on the poems of Dorothy Molloy
G.E. Stevens No more wavering… Burn through the parochial states of mind. Cut and burn away to the truth. This is Dorothy Molloy’s credo, found in one […]
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Two poems by Will Stone
Death of a Trophy Hunter Over the kill the larvae loom she posted on Instagram before the blood congealed, paid in dollars for the fun. Trophy […]
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Three poems by David Cooke
Urban Drawn to our open lawns and clipped verges, the spectral profusion of a well-stocked border or neat geometrical bed, they tiptoe across our phantom […]
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Two poems by Pascale Petit
Photo credit: Brian Fraser The below poems appear in Pascale Petit’s new collection Tiger Girl, forthcoming from Bloodaxe in June. Mongoose Brushes After my […]
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Poetry, Sublimation, and Integrative Writing
Leonardo da Vinci, portrait of himself as an old man, c. 1510 Dr Emily Bilman In Book X of The Republic, Plato considered poets to be too passionate […]
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‘House as Tent’: a poem by Katrina Naomi
The below poem will appear in Katrina’s third collection, Wild Persistence, forthcoming from Seren this June. House as Tent You walk uphill to sleep, downhill […]
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Two poems by Kevin O’Farrell
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Keith Douglas’s ‘Desert Flowers’ and Repetition
The below essay appears in Jamie McKendrick’s new book The Foreign Connection: Writing on Poetry, Art & Translation, forthcoming from Legenda this spring. Jamie McKendrick Living […]
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Two poems by Bob Beagrie
The below poems are taken from Bob Beagrie’s new collection Civil Insolencies (Smokestack), which tells the story of the Civil War battle of Guisborough in North Yorkshire on 16 […]
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Three poems by Philip Hancock
Back End of February and the drifts are up to the eaves. On the old folks’ bungalows, startled faces at the glass shrink behind their curtains. […]
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A poem by Kim Moore
The below poem is from Kim Moore’s forthcoming book-length sequence All the Men I Never Married. All The Men I Never Married No.21 Many […]
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Two poems by Ruth Padel
This month Ruth Padel presents a major new work, Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life, published in the 250th year of Beethoven’s birth. Below are two poems from it. […]
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Approaches to Jean Follain
Charles Boyle For a period of several weeks or maybe months in the late 1970s I believed that the world around me was on a lease about to […]
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Two poems by Matt Howard
Cults of Broadland Fen raft spider Let us venerate niche and otherness, local, patch-level occurrence – take the fen raft spider’s each simple eye, each […]
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A poem by G.E. Stevens
The Roseland Peninsula Tell me now – how often do we live in our own description? (Charles Tomlinson) Looking west, the hill has no house […]
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Two poems by T.P.E
Parable II Here, lads, this song, No Eyes, reminds me when – this the common end to a normal night, being after, well in the new […]