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Two poems by Rachel Piercey
Small griefs, like looking up from the page and realising that the train, for quite some time, has been moving through the kind of scene that […]
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Three poems by William Wootten
Mindfulness Imagine truly being in the present, Our every thought upon a plane like one Mapped out by Euclid. Here, the garden sun Is eight […]
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‘All the Soul’s Endeavour’: where did the poetry of running go?
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 eyes will be on Tokyo, […]
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More Memorable than Sweetness: on Li-Young Lee’s poem ‘Always a Rose’
Zakia Carpenter-Hall A poet must perpetually ask the question, explicitly or implicitly, ‘What is it?’ What are the plants, animals, objects, etc. with which we share and […]
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Three poems by Jane Lovell
The pool below the oak Remember this: a driftway brimming cow parsley, bramble, its green beaded fruits; the field into which we clamber over wire, balance […]
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‘The Water in the Pond Considers Narcissus’: a poem by Andre Bagoo
image © Marlon James The Water in the Pond Considers Narcissus He looks at me and sees right through me, as if I am nothing, as […]
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Three poems by Oliver Comins
Oliver writes: These are part of a ‘calendar’ of 12 poems set in Pitshanger Park, near where I live in Ealing. The Park is a place of leisure, but […]
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‘All the Roads that Lead to Eminescu’: on the great Romanian poet
Andreea Iulia Scridon The name Mihai Eminescu isn’t likely to ring an immediate bell for Anglophone readers, but would certainly deserve to, having circled the globe quite […]
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Two Pintle poems by Rory Waterman
Re: Application FAO Dr Bob Pintle Senior Lecturer in Professional Creativity, Peterborough University and also dedicated to Dr Andrew Taylor, who did not inspire the poem […]
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Three poems by Alison Brackenbury
Chance: a dream Yes. It was you. From its small source my heart rushed like a flooded beck. But would you lead a writing course? Or […]
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From ‘the garden sonnets’: three poems by Andrew McMillan
it’s hard at first to comprehend the sleeping man so horizontal all through the day so sleepy despite the hours spent seemingly at rest but like a meadow […]
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Pixel Perfect: Stephen Sexton’s ‘If All the World and Love Were Young’
Chris Larkin When I was seven or eight years old, I was desperate to own either a Sega Mega Drive or a Super Nintendo. Much to my […]
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Thom Gunn’s carnival: a radical inside job
Thom Gunn, 1986. Photograph by LaVerne Harrell Clark. Courtesy of The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Copyright Arizona Board of Regents Andre Bagoo Thom Gunn’s poem […]
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Two poems by Lisa Kelly
Below are two poems from Lisa Kelly’s debut collecton A Map Towards Fluency, recently published by Carcanet. Colchester Native Oysters shucked. Poor man’s […]
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‘Allotment Evening’: a poem by Helen Calcutt
Allotment Evening You left the fire burning. The smoke stirred like a person moving among the brassicas and twine, and for a moment we thought […]
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‘Alfreton Town 0, Brackley Town 1’: a poem by Rory Waterman
Alfreton Town 0, Brackley Town 1 (89’) for Lloyd Pettiford and Adam Tocock The pitch is white where the sun’s not been seen on […]
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‘Glossa’: a poem by Andreea Iulia Scridon
Glossa (in response to M. Eminescu) Remember how you starfished your way across the pool of infinity bay how you and paradise made eye contact […]
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Four poems by James Peake
James Peake’s debut collection, Reaction Time of Glass, will be published by Two Rivers Press on 21st July. Below are four poems by James, including, from the book, ‘Marine […]
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‘Time a river we swim in freestyle’: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poetry & prose
Katie Da Cunha Lewin Throughout Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Poetry as Insurgent Art, his manifesto on poetry written in aphorisms published in 2007, he returns to central questions about […]
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Essential fragments: on the poetry of David Harsent
Below is an essay by Lavinia Singer from A Working Model of the Fall from Grace: Essays & Poems for David Harsent, recently published by Offord Road Books in […]