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An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London | Poems, reviews, essays, short fiction

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  • The Haunted Forties: Wrey Gardiner and Poetry Quarterly

  • ‘Namái Ye Un Ayeri’ – a poem in Asturian and English by Xe M. Sánchez

  • ‘Witness’ – a poem by Regina Weinert

  • ‘Untitled Film Still’ – a poem by Daniel Fraser

  • Why do we care: Romalyn Ante’s ‘Antiemetic for Homesickness’

  • Two poems by Nell Prince

  • ‘Waverley, 4.05.’ – a poem by John Fuller

  • Lunch with Frederick Seidel at Cafe Lux

  • On ‘Heredity/ASTYNOME’ by Naush Sabah

  • Two poems by Yuan Changming

  • Three poems by Patricia McCarthy

  • ‘Purple Pintle’ – a poem by Rory Waterman

  • Two poems by Fiona Larkin

  • Conceptualising the ‘good death’: Mechanisms of memory & mourning in Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’

  • Translations of Theodorakis by Gail Holst-Warhaft

  • ‘The Smallest Distillery in Scotland’ – a poem by Ben Verinder

  • On ‘Tiger Girl’ by Pascale Petit

  • ‘New Delhi, Beyond the AQI’, a poem by Anannya Uberoi

  • On the poetry of Douglas Crase

  • ‘Encounter’, a version of Baudelaire, by Stuart Henson

The Haunted Forties: Wrey Gardiner and Poetry Quarterly
‘Namái Ye Un Ayeri’ – a poem in Asturian and English by Xe M. Sánchez

Two poems by Oliver Comins

5 October 20205 October 2020

        Golf Behind Trees   An elegant course is exposed by newly opened air. There used to be a thick hedge, armed with …

On ‘Belladonna’ by Suna Afshan

5 October 20206 October 2020

    Daniel Bennett   Both grounded and detached, playing with a sense of narrative but also revelling in the rarefied brightness of the image, …

‘On the margin’ – a poem by Stephen Miller

5 October 20206 October 2020

        On the margin   On the margin of existence on the deep-sea floor between chimneys of boiling water and venting carbon where …

Three poems by Hannah Lowe

28 September 202029 September 2020

image © Dirk Skiba         Sonnet for the British-Born   And suddenly, new language: ‘British-Born’, for kids who grew up on terraces in …

‘Arachnid: Flight After Deluge’ – a poem by Naima Rashid

28 September 202028 September 2020

        Arachnid: Flight After Deluge   The waters have risen; the signal has sounded in our skeletons of minimal composition. An instinct of …

‘In an Orchard’ – a poem by William Wootten

28 September 202028 September 2020

        In an Orchard   Shall we drink a while and think of Eden, As in an orchard filled with waspy windfalls Children …

On Natalie Diaz’s ‘Postcolonial Love Poem’

21 September 202027 November 2020

    Holly Loveday   Ultimately, ‘you cannot drink poetry’. Diaz precedes this statement in her self-aware second collection, Postcolonial Love Poem, with the prayer …

The Lustre in Dullness: Philip Larkin, Sinéad Morrissey and Balance

21 September 202022 September 2020

© National Portrait Gallery, London     Nicola Healey   In Sinéad Morrissey’s collection On Balance (2017), Morrissey selectively quotes from Larkin’s ‘Born Yesterday’ (1954) …

Four poems by Jake Morris-Campbell

21 September 202021 September 2020

        The Village that Vanished   All the bitter day waves smash into Smugglers’ Cove and Byer’s Hole. The sky has failed to …

KCL student poets: Holly Loveday, Viola Ugolini, Richelle Sushil

14 September 202014 September 2020

  Holly Loveday   Qikiqtaaluk or, Baffin Island   I move beyond the fact of you, but lay atop my suitcase on a 5th avenue …

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  • The Haunted Forties: Wrey Gardiner and Poetry Quarterly 25 January 2021
  • ‘Namái Ye Un Ayeri’ – a poem in Asturian and English by Xe M. Sánchez 25 January 2021
  • ‘Witness’ – a poem by Regina Weinert 25 January 2021
  • ‘Untitled Film Still’ – a poem by Daniel Fraser 25 January 2021
  • Why do we care: Romalyn Ante’s ‘Antiemetic for Homesickness’ 15 January 2021

 

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