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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 […]
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Everyday Creativity: Inside the Minds of a Painter and a Poet
Miranda Boulton / Island Series 12, 2018 / monoprint with gouache 39 x 48cm Victoria Best For a year and a half, between January 2017 and July […]
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Two poems by Iain Britton
from Windows In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe… […]
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‘Garden God’: a poem by Kevin Cahill
Garden God Easing her flip-flops and ectopic body down the lamp-post, this grasshopper of a girl fringed with electricity from São Paulo and the South Seas […]
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Two poems by John Greening
Villa D’Este More water, extravagant upshootings and downpourings of it, unbottled from the veins of a Borgia. Such force and power — though to what end […]
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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 […]