On the poetry of Douglas Crase
Declan Ryan “A shipwreck becomes a way of seeing things”, Douglas Crase writes in ‘Saggaponnack’, and a sense of the dredging up …
‘Encounter’, a version of Baudelaire, by Stuart Henson
Encounter Traffic was howling in my ears and eyes that moment when we passed—she in her slim black dress, a gloved …
Two poems by Natalie Linh Bolderston
Thất Tịch Seventh Month, Saigon, 1975 They share a dish of beans like small blood clots, believing they will one …
On ‘Dressing for the Afterlife’ by Maria Taylor
Matthew Stewart In her second full collection, Dressing for the Afterlife (Nine Arches, 2020), Maria Taylor makes a huge step forward from …
Two poems by Nick Makoha
Codex 3 We were thirty. Another day was ending as a mosquito landed at the edge of my hand. You ordered two …
Three poems by Daniel Bennett
Figures in a Landscape Remember when the country offered a pathway to freedom? The creek lanes and brooks and railway arches, …
‘For a Coming Extinction’: a poem by Pascale Petit
Image credit: © Brian Fraser King’s College London’s popular ‘Poetry And..’ series, chaired by Professor of Poetry Ruth Padel, returns on 30th November at …
New poems by John Greening
To mark the publication day of his Vapour Trails: Reviews and Essays on Poetry (Shoestring Press), Wild Court is featuring four new poems by …
‘Mephitine’: a poem by Sarah Doyle
Mephitine You will know me before you see me, will sense me from twenty paces. I am all sour milk …
Two poems by Jennifer Lee Tsai
I remember you were the first man who taught me about death. I was five years old; we were walking across …