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Three poems by Will Stone
Site of Hitler’s Berghof, Obersalzberg, October 2018 © Will Stone Below are three poems from Will Stone’s most recent collection, The Sleepwalkers (Shearsman). Notes on each poem follow […]
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Two poems by Rosanna Licari
Aptenodytes forsteri and the imperial egg Converge as the centre is everything in the deep Antarctic winter. Begin the clockwise shuffle towards the time of birth. […]
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Permanent Afternoons: The Underworld in the Poetry of Sean O’Brien
John Challis Then, midway down that channel of the dead, A figure thick with mud rose up and called: ‘Who are you? You have come before your time.’ […]
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‘Twa Pixels’: a poem by Philip Fried
Twa Pixels As I was walking all alane / I heard twa corbies makin a mane … — from the medieval ballad ‘Twa Corbies,’ in Scots […]
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Breaking the Unthinkable Silence: on Michael Hofmann’s ‘One Lark, One Horse’
(photograph by Jemimah Kuhfeld: www.jemimahkuhfeld.co.uk) André Naffis-Sahely Poetry critics, just like the rest of us, are largely ungenerous to the middle-aged. More often than not, we expect our […]
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The World of the Half-Seen: on Ruth Padel’s ‘Emerald’ and writing loss
Nadia Saward Emerald, Ruth Padel’s new collection (Chatto & Windus, 2018), is primarily an elegy for her mother who passed away in 2017 at the age of ninety-seven. […]
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‘Let the Parts of the Flower Speak’: a poem by Mona Arshi
‘Poetry And – Human Rights’, a free discussion and meet-the-author book signing with prize-winning poet and lawyer Mona Arshi and Shadow Attorney General and member of the House of Lords Shami Chakrabarti, […]
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‘Polynya’: a poem by Helen Mort
‘Poetry And – Women in the Arctic’, a free event – in partnership with Hercules Editions – curated by Ruth Padel, with poet Helen Mort, travel author and biographer Sara Wheeler, and […]
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‘Abducted’: on a poem by Stanley Kunitz
(photograph by Lynn Saville: www.lynnsaville.com) Martina Evans Although I know the month and the day, I don’t know the year I discovered Stanley Kunitz’s poem ‘The Abduction’. His […]
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Two poems by Adam Warne
This summer saw the release of Adam Warne’s debut pamphlet, Suffolk Bang, published by Gatehouse Press. Warne’s fractured, ‘spooked songs’ draw on folklore and an ethnographic study of his […]
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Three poems by Sarah Law
Below are three poems from Sarah Law’s new pamphlet My Converted Father, recently published by Broken Sleep Books. Hobbies I’ve had my enthusiasms, admits my […]
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Two poems by Julie Irigaray
Bologna A terracotta forest of distorted towers: medieval Manhattan where Dante wandered. Madonnas nestled at the corner of each via: mounds of sacred hearts, altars of […]
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Two poems by Richard O’Brien
Photo credit: Adrian Pope You & me & the incredibly distant island universes 1. The man behind the glass removes his gloves. The man […]
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Hart Crane in Greenwich Village
(photograph by Walker Evans) Francesca Bratton In his 1921 flâneur’s guide to New York City, Hints to Pilgrims, the dramatist and essayist Charles S. Brooks briefly interrupts his […]
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Three poems by Richard Skinner
Below are three poems from Richard Skinner’s new pamphlet The Malvern Aviator, recently published by Smokestack Books. Dark Nook I am Egbert Clague. I come every morning […]
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A poem by Hilary Davies
Below is a poem from the sequence ‘Rhine Fugue’ by Hilary Davies, which appears in her fourth collection, Exile and the Kingdom (Enitharmon, 2016). A note by Hilary follows […]
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Two poems by Theresa Muñoz
Water of Leith By the water of Leith you sit & think of the day. Scrolling down, seeing bad news, you kept a straight face. Told […]
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Three poems by James Peake
The Skin of Epimenides Read The Seven Sages and you’re asked to believe this loner cured all Athens of disease, backwards prophet who saw past not […]
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Three poems from ‘The Built Environment’ by Emily Hasler
Below are three poems from Emily Hasler’s debut collection The Built Environment, published this month by Pavilion Poetry. The Built Environment is being launched at the University of Liverpool […]
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‘Translation is the Opposite of War’: On Sarah Maguire
Photos above & below: © Crispin Hughes André Naffis-Sahely True translators take to their craft so intensely that they tend to hurtle towards invisibility, and in Britain, the […]