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  • A statement for the importance of poems in a life: on Jonathan Davidson’s ‘A Commonplace’

  • ‘Zaban i urdu’ – a poem by Amaan Hyder

  • ‘Window in the Rock’ – a poem by Lucy Dixcart

  • Two poems by Matthew Paul

  • Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize 2022 – winner

  • Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize 2022 – joint runners-up

  • Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize 2022 – specially commended

  • Three pamphlets reviewed by Richie McCaffery

  • ‘In the Mountains of the Monédières, by the Green Waters of the Vienne’ – a poem by Hilary Davies

  • ‘Love’s Arrow’ – a translation of Chaucer

  • ‘Cleaning the Big House’ – a poem by Martyn Crucefix

  • Pushing her own boundaries: on Alison Brackenbury’s ‘Thorpeness’

  • ‘Salmon Farm Blues’ – a poem by Andrew McNeillie

  • ‘Hijrah’ – a poem by Imad Khan

  • ‘The Waterspout’ – a translation of Luis Vaz de Camões

  • ‘On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble’: reading A. E. Housman

  • Two poems by Tamiko Dooley

  • Two poems by Patrick Davidson Roberts

  • Two poems by Bernard Pearson

  • Three poems by Rebecca Farmer

A statement for the importance of poems in a life: on Jonathan Davidson’s ‘A Commonplace’
‘Zaban i urdu’ – a poem by Amaan Hyder

‘Aubade’: a poem by Rituparna Sahoo

25 January 202225 January 2022

Photo by Cecile Hournau on Unsplash         Aubade   Waking at five, I stare at the shimmering diaphanous curtains as the window square …

Two poems by Richie McCaffery

25 January 202225 January 2022

       Photo by Shapelined on Unsplash            Games   Each week it was the same – the PE teacher would pick his …

The voyage to ‘eternal silence’: Male heroism and the evasion of death in Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses’

12 January 202212 January 2022

Ulixes mosaic at the Bardo Museum in Tunis, Tunisia. 2nd century AD.     Lily Searstone   Tennyson’s nuanced reworking of Homeric epic in his …

On ‘Bloom’ by Sarah Westcott

12 January 202212 January 2022

  Daniel Bennett   The poems in this luminous book, Bloom (Pavilion Press, 2021) are tight, fragmented things, varying in shape and typesetting, in a …

Two poems by Caroline Banerjee

12 January 202212 January 2022

    Photo by Matt Brown on Unsplash            Orpheus’s Awakening   That moment Orpheus looked back, He knew what he had lost: …

‘Window Seat of a Train in the Past’: a poem by Debasis Tripathy

12 January 202212 January 2022

    Photo by Parichay Sen on Unsplash            Window Seat of a Train in the Past   We travel on the train …

Two poems by Oliver Comins

12 January 202212 January 2022

    Photo by Alessandro Bogliari on Unsplash            Another XI   A cricket tea on a boundary edge in old heat. Trains …

‘The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster’: a poem by Jennifer Edgecombe

16 December 202116 December 2021

  The below poem is taken from Jennifer Edgecombe’s debut pamphlet The Grief of the Sea, published by Broken Sleep Books in June 2020. It …

Two poems by Bersu Doldur

6 December 202112 January 2022

      Gypsy moth   Taurus Mountains, the fiery air of Mesopotamia; she waits for it to caress her. It doesn’t. The English cousin. But …

An excerpt from ‘Wendy Cope’ by Rory Waterman: on her ‘Saint Hilda of Whitby’

25 November 202112 January 2022

  Rory Waterman writes: This is a slightly edited short excerpt from my recent book Wendy Cope (Liverpool University Press, 2021), reprinted here with thanks …

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  • A statement for the importance of poems in a life: on Jonathan Davidson’s ‘A Commonplace’ 12 May 2022
  • ‘Zaban i urdu’ – a poem by Amaan Hyder 12 May 2022
  • ‘Window in the Rock’ – a poem by Lucy Dixcart 12 May 2022
  • Two poems by Matthew Paul 12 May 2022
  • Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize 2022 – winner 10 May 2022

 

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