‘Aubade’: a poem by Rituparna Sahoo
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
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’
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
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
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
Photo by Parichay Sen on Unsplash Window Seat of a Train in the Past We travel on the train …
Two poems by Oliver Comins
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
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
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’
Rory Waterman writes: This is a slightly edited short excerpt from my recent book Wendy Cope (Liverpool University Press, 2021), reprinted here with thanks …