On ‘Heredity/ASTYNOME’ by Naush Sabah
Daniel Bennett If poetry ever had ‘must have’ purchases, then Naush Sabah’s debut release from Broken Sleep Books proved to be one …
Two poems by Yuan Changming
I vs 我: Another Bilinguacultural Poem The first person singular pronoun, or this very Writing subject in English is I , …
Three poems by Patricia McCarthy
Below are three poems from Patricia McCarthy’s new chapbook-length sequence Whose hand would you like to hold…, published by Agenda Editions, written during …
‘Purple Pintle’ – a poem by Rory Waterman
Purple Pintle About and by Dr Bob Pintle Associate Professor in Professional Creativity, Peterborough University and for Dr Andrew Taylor, who did …
Two poems by Fiona Larkin
Recognition It’s time to welcome the magnolia, her pink flushed cups, petals tight on black twigs, her cold courage, a clench …
Conceptualising the ‘good death’: Mechanisms of memory & mourning in Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’
Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Samuel Laurence, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones oil on canvas, circa 1840 © National Portrait Gallery, London Lily Searstone …
Translations of Theodorakis by Gail Holst-Warhaft
The below translations are taken from The House with the Scorpions: Selected Poems and Song-Lyrics of Mikis Theodorakis (Fomite, 2020), translated by Gail Holst-Warhaft. …
‘The Smallest Distillery in Scotland’ – a poem by Ben Verinder
The Smallest Distillery in Scotland Donaghy found me behind the whisky stills and suffered my story: faith, boiled down to a …
On ‘Tiger Girl’ by Pascale Petit
King’s College London’s popular ‘Poetry And..’ series, chaired by Professor of Poetry Ruth Padel, returns on 30th November at 5pm with ‘Poetry And… The …
‘New Delhi, Beyond the AQI’, a poem by Anannya Uberoi
New Delhi, Beyond the AQI The king’s lane, papayawhip-paved. Smog on the lemonade children. By November, everything underwater. Crop-burn and tobacco …