‘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, forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in June. …
Poetry, Sublimation, and Integrative Writing
Leonardo da Vinci, portrait of himself as an old man, c. 1510 Dr Emily Bilman In Book X of The Republic, Plato considered …
‘House as Tent’: a poem by Katrina Naomi
The below poem will appear in Katrina’s third collection, Wild Persistence, forthcoming from Seren this June. House as Tent You …
Keith Douglas’s ‘Desert Flowers’ and Repetition
The below essay appears in Jamie McKendrick’s new book The Foreign Connection: Writing on Poetry, Art & Translation, forthcoming from Legenda this spring. …
Two poems by Bob Beagrie
The below poems are taken from Bob Beagrie’s new collection Civil Insolencies (Smokestack), which tells the story of the Civil War battle of Guisborough …
Three poems by Philip Hancock
Back End of February and the drifts are up to the eaves. On the old folks’ bungalows, startled faces at the …
A poem by Kim Moore
The below poem is from Kim Moore’s forthcoming book-length sequence All the Men I Never Married. All The Men I Never …
Two poems by Ruth Padel
This month Ruth Padel presents a major new work, Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life, published in the 250th year of Beethoven’s birth. Below …
Approaches to Jean Follain
Charles Boyle For a period of several weeks or maybe months in the late 1970s I believed that the world around me was …