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  • On ‘Hollow Palaces: An Anthology of Modern Country House Poems’

  • ‘Two Visions’ – a translation from the Estonian of Mathura

  • ‘Landskein’: a poem by Jenny Pagdin

  • ‘Gothic’: a poem by Mark Wynne

  • On ‘The Sleep Road’ by Stewart Sanderson

  • ‘Church Crawling’: a poem by John Greening

  • ‘Ballad of the Outer Life’: from the German of Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  • Two poems by Hamish Whyte

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

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

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

  • 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’

On ‘Hollow Palaces: An Anthology of Modern Country House Poems’
‘Two Visions’ – a translation from the Estonian of Mathura

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 …

On ‘Corrigenda for Costafine Town’ by Jake Morris-Campbell

24 November 202124 November 2021

    Richie McCaffery   The first edition of Alasdair Gray’s debut collection of short stories (Unlikely Stories, Mostly) carries with it a little snippet …

Two poems by Stephanie Powell

24 November 202124 November 2021

    Photo by Anton Murygin on Unsplash            Foxes   In the backstreets the foxes are synchronised swimmers- unaware they are in …

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  • On ‘Hollow Palaces: An Anthology of Modern Country House Poems’ 29 June 2022
  • ‘Two Visions’ – a translation from the Estonian of Mathura 29 June 2022
  • ‘Landskein’: a poem by Jenny Pagdin 29 June 2022
  • ‘Gothic’: a poem by Mark Wynne 29 June 2022
  • On ‘The Sleep Road’ by Stewart Sanderson 16 June 2022

 

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