‘Pigeons’: a poem by Sarah Westcott
Pigeons ‘Men still live who, in their youth, remember pigeons; trees still live who, in their youth, were shaken by a …
Two poems by Jenny Pagdin
Noah and the catkins I was sickening for psychosis, more than sickening and you were less than two, just starting to …
‘But freedom is not so exciting’: Louis MacNeice’s Autumn Journal
Louis MacNeice by Howard Coster, nitrate negative, 1942. NPG x1624. © National Portrait Gallery, London. (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) Jonathan Hitchens ‘Oppression and …
Three poems by Richie McCaffery
© Gerry Cambridge Dead man’s beer They were bundled in a bag for life in the garage, thirty yellow-black tins of …
‘Grief is like a miracle’: a poem by Helen Calcutt
Grief is like a miracle like opening your mouth for water, and finding rain. You stand for days outside the body …
‘Flyleaf, Tractatus’: a poem by Davina Allison
Flyleaf, Tractatus I. A flock of birds down where it’s still, where, each morning, fishermen throw their nets into the river, …
Remembering Alexander Hutchison (1943-2015)
Richie McCaffery I told him (hoping to impress him) that I wanted to write an article on his poetry. He rolled his …
Two poems by Sarah Fletcher
The shouts Somewhere, of course, someone is dancing. No, no; not us. Door handles bark and women seem Like babies. Moon. …
The Importance of Subjectivity in Ekphrastic Poems by Auden and Plath
Pieter Brueghel, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c.1560 Rachel Carney What happens when you are asked to review a book or …
Three poems by Matthew Stewart
Happy Birthday …You clear them away, usher in a future not featuring you. Michael Laskey, ‘Birthday Cards’ While hunting the …