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Three new poems by Isabel Galleymore
Shadow Tale In the tree, down the trunk, on the curb and then running in front of a car. Experience has taught me if it doesn’t […]
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Four poems from ‘Spoils’ by James Brookes
Below are four poems from the sequence ‘Antigeorgics’ by James Brookes, which appears in his second full collection, Spoils, published this month by Offord Road Books. Spoils is being […]
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Five poems from ‘The Mains’ by Patrick Davidson Roberts
Below are five poems from Patrick Davidson Roberts’s debut collection, The Mains, recently published by Vanguard Editions. The collection is being launched at the London Review Bookshop, Bloomsbury, this […]
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Four new poems by Fiona Benson
Heavenly Bodies for Mark Haworth-Booth Small mother, I want to believe that when the soul is released it is borne to the stars by a swan, though […]
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‘Back into the socket’: William Fuller’s Playtime
Photo credit: Anna Fuller They are tempted to note patterns in the scene below, but its aspects are so various and the names to be applied to them so […]
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Meeting Point: on being a Chinese poet writing in English
Mary Jean Chan ‘I realize that the Other doesn’t really look for diversity – he is only looking for himself’ – Kei Miller As a Chinese poet now […]
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‘Very gently struck / the quay night bell’: W.S. Graham & The Nightfishing
2018 will mark the centenary of the poet W.S. Graham (1918-1986). Graham – a Scot who for most of his adult life lived in west Cornwall – was neglected in […]
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Into the Road Map’s Blank Regions: On Paul Farley
Photo credit: Urszula Soltys ‘Poetry And – The Red Egg’, a free talk and poetry reading with two award-winning writers, poet Paul Farley and scientist Tim Birkhead, takes place […]
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‘The Mystery’: a poem by Paul Farley
Photo credit: Urszula Soltys ‘Poetry And – The Red Egg’, a free talk and poetry reading with two award-winning writers, poet Paul Farley and scientist Tim Birkhead, takes place […]
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The Most Perfect Thing: the Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg
‘Poetry And – The Red Egg’, a free talk and poetry reading with two award-winning writers, scientist Tim Birkhead and poet Paul Farley, takes place on Tuesday 28 November at […]
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Conrad at 160: three poems by Steven J Fowler
The year 2017 has been declared ‘The Year of Joseph Conrad’ by the Polish Government to celebrate Conrad’s 160th birthday. To mark this, a poetic celebration of Conrad will take […]
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Judith or Salomé? Ambiguity & inequality in the poetry of Frederick Seidel
Matthew Halliday It is not always easy to distinguish between Judith and Salomé in the Western art tradition. Are we viewing Judith’s faithfulness to God in a state of […]
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Conrad at 160: ‘Notes Towards a Poem’ by Agnieszka Studzinska
The year 2017 has been declared ‘The Year of Joseph Conrad’ by the Polish Government to celebrate Conrad’s 160th birthday. To mark this, a poetic celebration of Conrad will take […]
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Conrad at 160: ‘How I found Dr Livingstone’, a poem by Robert Hampson
The year 2017 has been declared ‘The Year of Joseph Conrad’ by the Polish Government to celebrate Conrad’s 160th birthday. To mark this, a poetic celebration of Conrad will take […]
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‘Somewhere’: a poem by John Fuller
Somewhere Somewhere I once belonged. Who knows where? But like the map englobed My journey’s clear. I must find out. I must go there. For the past is space […]
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The Enchantment of Disenchantment: Wallace Stevens’ ‘Sunday Morning’ & Ecopoetic Potential
Rebecca Tamás Wallace Stevens is not a poet one necessarily associates with environmental thought or eco-poetics; his poetry is perceived as flamboyant, abstract and arch, far away from the […]
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‘Twickenham Garden’: a poem by Andrew McNeillie
Twickenham Garden We say it still, asking each other how many poems do you know by heart? Meaning how many can you recite from memory and something more implying […]
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‘Life beyond the glass’: Darwin: A Life in Poems by Ruth Padel
Released in 2009 to celebrate Darwin’s bicentenary, Darwin: A Life in Poems is a selection of snapshots of the naturalist’s life, using quotations from his journals, papers, autobiography and letters. […]
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Andrew Elliott – Only Disconnect
Julian Stannard Part of the pleasure of reading Mortality Rate is knowing so little about the man who wrote it. Some official data: Andrew Elliott was born in Northern Ireland […]
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Tidings by Ruth Padel
The Voice of Silence I am the oldest angel, the dark side of the brain. Everything untold, suppressed, unseemly or wild is under my protection. I am Charoum, Angel of […]