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An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London | Poems, reviews, essays, short fiction

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  • New Foundation & Poetry Retreat Launched for Black Poets

  • The Poem Not Taken: Robert Frost and the inaugural tradition that isn’t

  • Two poems by Ross Wilson

  • Poems from ‘The Conversation’ by Jo Burns and Emily Cooper

  • ‘Dates with the Fates’ – a short sequence by Andew Neilson

  • Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize: 2020 winners

  • ‘Cakes by Carol’ – a poem by Naima Rashid

  • Fifty Forty: on the incomplete histories of Carcanet and the LRB

  • Two poems in memory of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021)

  • On the poetry of George Kendrick

  • ‘Swimming’ – a poem by Rupinder Kaur

  • Two poems by Roy Marshall

  • Two poems by Alison Brackenbury

  • ‘The Kill’ – a poem by Andrew Jordan

  • ‘Masks’ – a translation by April Yee of Sebastián Núñez Torres

  • Ana Blandiana: Poet, Civic Figure, Woman

  • ‘Neighbours’ – a poem by Mark Russell

  • ‘Those Days’ – a poem by Gary Allen

  • ‘Peace in East Sussex’ – a poem by Colin Falck

  • ‘Like walking in the rain’: César Vallejo, Carolyn Forché, and the problem of witness

New Foundation & Poetry Retreat Launched for Black Poets
The Poem Not Taken: Robert Frost and the inaugural tradition that isn’t

On the poetry of Douglas Crase

18 November 202018 November 2020

    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

18 November 202018 November 2020

        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

11 November 202012 November 2020

        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

11 November 202012 November 2020

    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

11 November 20201 December 2020

    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

11 November 202015 December 2020

        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

11 November 202011 March 2021

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

27 October 202011 November 2020

  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

27 October 202028 October 2020

          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

13 October 202013 October 2020

        I remember   you were the first man who taught me about death. I was five years old; we were walking across …

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  • New Foundation & Poetry Retreat Launched for Black Poets 6 April 2021
  • The Poem Not Taken: Robert Frost and the inaugural tradition that isn’t 1 April 2021
  • Two poems by Ross Wilson 1 April 2021
  • Poems from ‘The Conversation’ by Jo Burns and Emily Cooper 1 April 2021
  • ‘Dates with the Fates’ – a short sequence by Andew Neilson 1 April 2021

 

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