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‘I’m not sitting next to you’: On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell
Ellen Cranitch I once had to interview Glyn Maxwell. I’d just read this in his book On Poetry: ‘I think a poem you read has to meet the same criteria […]
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‘I dared speak my mind’: War Poetry, or the struggle to connect
James Nixon There is something very modern about Alun Lewis’s poem ‘All day it has rained …’ It is a poem that bares the isolation and boredom of the soldier’s […]
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Ahren Warner – Three Poems – PDF download
Ahren Warner Three Poems
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Iain McGilchrist – The Master and his Emissary
Iain McGilchrist’s book The Master and his Emissary argues that the division of the brain into two hemispheres is essential to human existence, making possible incompatible versions of the world, with […]
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The Edge of Thought: On Michael Symmons Roberts
Aviva Dautch Michael Symmons Roberts’s first collection, published in 1993, is Soft Keys and its title poem could be read as an ars poetica not just for this book but […]
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Black Lagoon – Abigail Parry
Black Lagoon ‘Even I, Lucas, have heard the legend of a man-fish.’ But what did they tell you, Lucas? Out of the murk and mystery – was I all […]
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Seersucker – Will Burns
Seersucker The seersucker suit turns down a drink. I’ve seen you drinking wine before though, someone says. Chicken and onions, talk of his Soho… receding, recession. It’s a plain […]
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Kindness I Suppose – Will Burns
Kindness I Suppose These were the days pitched from morning straight into night, the days of vodka 7s in the shower, of you bringing the first good guitar any […]
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Translation – Sean O’Brien
Translation No, we were never introduced, Yet she and I were long acquainted. I know all her ways and all The tunes this pale usurper sings To those she […]
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Poussin’s ‘Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake’ – Ranjit Hoskote
Poussin’s ‘Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake’ Lying there. Just knotted and crushed by speckled coils. A whistling snap and bite. I could have sworn I saw […]
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Black Water – Eduardo C Corral
Black Water I spit his name out & four wolves appear. Black, eyes silvery, ears skinned & tense. They thrash their tails twice then rush toward me. A dark […]
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Fresco – Fiona Sampson
Fresco Those long-dead painters must have thought it was impossible to remake the world however tender the flowers and birds they left lightly suspended in tempera whose modest visible […]
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Late – Fiona Sampson
Late Not much use saying then I was busy I was asked as if to suggest there were orders I only followed useless afterwards when you find it was […]
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‘my ties with yous are not unique’: Juliana Spahr’s Lyric in a Global Age
Isabel Galleymore Given that Juliana Spahr’s poetry seeks to establish connection between the individual and the world, there is a certain irony in the way her work has received little […]
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The Historical paw-print: thoughts on Ariana Reines’s The Cow
Daisy Lafarge [Spoiler alert: discusses later scenes of the 1976 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Carrie] “I’m gonna bash your little head in, and you don’t have to worry […]
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Children sing for Alex Chilton – thoughts on Michael Robbins
Hugh Foley To understand where Michael Robbins is coming from (aside from America) it might help to take a detour to Buzzfeed. There you can find a series of interviews […]
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Sushrut Jadhav: Connecting, Belonging and a Clean New Music
Ruth Padel In The Art of Writing, written in the 3rd century AD, the Chinese poet Lu Ji wrote about strategies for finding words which seem “to belong with each […]
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Jerry Brotton – A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Jerry Brotton’s A History of the World In Twelve Maps was reviewed by Tom Holland for The Guardian. Holland noted that Brotton’s “idea of tracing within maps the patterns of […]
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Make us Dance or Christen us – an introduction to Kei Miller
Joey Connolly The first poem in Kei Miller’s first Carcanet book, There Is an Anger that Moves, opens like this: In this country you have an accent; in the pub, […]
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A Noble Scruff – an introduction to Daljit Nagra
Richard Scott: It’s been over ten years since Daljit Nagra wrote his poem Look We Have Coming to Dover and it seems more urgent now than ever. In 2004, Nagra’s […]