‘Cleaning the Big House’ – a poem by Martyn Crucefix
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Dark Self 12, Susan Aldworth, 2017, monoprint, 56 x 76 cms. Image courtesy of the artist and Guy’s Hospital, London. susanaldworth.com …