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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

‘Cleaning the Big House’ – a poem by Martyn Crucefix

19 April 202220 April 2022

    Photo by Anna Kukhareva on Unsplash              Cleaning the Big House   Norfolk, England, 2030   It was the English …

Pushing her own boundaries: on Alison Brackenbury’s ‘Thorpeness’

28 March 202228 March 2022

      Matthew Stewart   Alison Brackenbury’s new collection, Thorpeness (Carcanet Press, 2022), provides a perfect rebuttal to Larkin’s notorious disavowal of a poet’s …

‘Salmon Farm Blues’ – a poem by Andrew McNeillie

28 March 202228 March 2022

Photo by Datingscout on Unsplash     Andrew McNeillie’s New and Collected poems, Striking a Match in a Storm, is published this week by Carcanet. …

‘Hijrah’ – a poem by Imad Khan

28 March 202228 March 2022

Photo by Steve McSkudder on Unsplash          Hijrah*   I’ve been here and there looking for my Promised Land hearing sweet voices through …

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

28 March 202228 March 2022

  The below is a translation by Mark McGuinness of a section of Os Lusíadas (‘The Luciads’), an epic poem by the 16th-century Portuguese poet …

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

5 March 20227 March 2022

      Nell Prince   I partially recall A Shropshire Lad’s thirty-first poem, ‘On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble’, because it’s in a …

Two poems by Tamiko Dooley

5 March 20225 March 2022

Photo by S. Tsuchiya on Unsplash           Susumu   The sun beat down on Tokyo intensely: Forty-five in the shade. The matsu …

Two poems by Patrick Davidson Roberts

5 March 20225 March 2022

Photo by Javier Balseiro on Unsplash           Caiaphas   I am content with what I have done in my time, and have …

Two poems by Bernard Pearson

5 March 20225 March 2022

Photo by Simon Godfrey on Unsplash           Manor Farm, Gotherington   The walls stooped Under the weight of age. Windows frowned From …

Three poems by Rebecca Farmer

21 February 202223 February 2022

The Dark Self 12, Susan Aldworth, 2017, monoprint, 56 x 76 cms. Image courtesy of the artist and Guy’s Hospital, London. susanaldworth.com       …

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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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