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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 beef discardeddown guts and out again to […]
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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 […]
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Two poems by Ben Wilkinson
The Flower Carrier after the painting by Diego Rivera, 1935 These blooms are for the mayor’s daughter, wedding on which a town pins its hopes. […]
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‘Big Talk’: a poem by Zakia Carpenter-Hall
Big Talk ‘when the mystics speak of worlds beyond scent and colour, the common man… cannot grasp their reality.’ ~ Rumi Cosmologists say, ‘if the […]
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Try To Be Better: an engagement with the creative practice of W. S. Graham
This week sees the launch of Try To Be Better, a multi-disciplinary engagement with the idiosyncratic creative practice of the late poet W. S. Graham, co-edited by Sam Buchan-Watts […]
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‘Blood in the Sky’: a poem by Alan Zhukovski
Blood in the Sky A mortar attack hit a new condominium, built just a year ago, mixing lost lives with debris, gnawed by merciless, rat-like flames. […]
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Marratide: William Martin’s Chorography of County Durham
‘Cuthbert’s brief dream / And high resting place / Here before Durham’ (s.16): Warden Law by William Martin, part of ‘Wiramutha Helix’ Jake Morris-Campbell Next year […]
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A poem from ‘Fighters, Losers’ by Declan Ryan
Below is a poem from Declan Ryan’s new pamphlet, Fighters, Losers, published this week by New Walk Editions and available to buy here. Declan will be launching his pamphlet […]
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Three poems by Kate Behrens
Dream Lover Next to a Spanish river, I tell him my body is ruined. Not existing, he doesnʼt mind: I like your differences. With metallic water, […]
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‘Rhiannon’: a poem by John Fuller
©Paul Stuart Rhiannon 1 One evening, having dined in my estate Among my many men, merry and wise, I took the air outside the palace, […]