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Two poems by Hamish Whyte
Photo by Michael Mahood on Unsplash From the Sea-window The tide’s going out. The heron stalks the rock pools. A dunlin picks its way through […]
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‘Window in the Rock’ – a poem by Lucy Dixcart
Andrea Sonda on Unsplash Window in the Rock When you glimpse it you’re crammed into a floating bathtub with a teenage boy at the […]
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A statement for the importance of poems in a life: on Jonathan Davidson’s ‘A Commonplace’
Daniel Bennett A sense of place abounds in Jonathan Davidson’s A Commonplace (Smith-Doorstep, 2020), and while that might seem natural from the title, the ‘place’ here derives […]
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‘Zaban i urdu’ – a poem by Amaan Hyder
Harry Grout on Unsplash Zaban i urdu Zaban i urdu, meaning language of the camp. In Urdu, here is idher or yahan. There is udher […]
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Two poems by Matthew Paul
Frans Ruiter on Unsplash Brian Clough in the Rijksmuseum I had four beautiful days in Amsterdam. The weather was gorgeous, the sights were just absolutely […]
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Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize 2022 – winner
Gabriela Sambuccetti MA in Modern Languages, Literature and Culture, Arts & Humanities A Migrant in a Piece of Paper A migrant could be someone who […]
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Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize 2022 – joint runners-up
Jit Mun MSc Early Intervention in Psychosis, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience New Year Moon The luminous New Year moon Ascends in empty […]
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Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize 2022 – specially commended
Heilien Diedericks PhD Global Health and Social Medicine, Department of Global Health & Social Medicine Moving the family Through the passenger window, the mountain […]
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Three pamphlets reviewed by Richie McCaffery
Richie McCaffery It is apt that John Greening recently edited the Carcanet selection of Iain Crichton Smith’s poems. There’s an anecdote that does the rounds in Scottish […]
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‘In the Mountains of the Monédières, by the Green Waters of the Vienne’ – a poem by Hilary Davies
© Hilary Davies In the Mountains of the Monédières, by the Green Waters of the Vienne In the mountains of the Monédières I sat by […]
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‘Love’s Arrow’ – a translation of Chaucer
© Morgan Library, New York The below is a translation by Mark McGuinness of a section of Troilus and Criseyde, Geoffrey Chaucer’s epic poem re-telling, in Middle […]
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‘Cleaning the Big House’ – a poem by Martyn Crucefix
Photo by Anna Kukhareva on Unsplash Cleaning the Big House Norfolk, England, 2030 It was the English woman Veronica Berridge who let […]
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Pushing her own boundaries: on Alison Brackenbury’s ‘Thorpeness’
Matthew Stewart Alison Brackenbury’s new collection, Thorpeness (Carcanet Press, 2022), provides a perfect rebuttal to Larkin’s notorious disavowal of a poet’s obligation to develop. This might […]
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‘Salmon Farm Blues’ – a poem by Andrew McNeillie
Photo by Datingscout on Unsplash Andrew McNeillie’s New and Collected poems, Striking a Match in a Storm, is published this week by Carcanet. There will be an online […]
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‘Hijrah’ – a poem by Imad Khan
Photo by Steve McSkudder on Unsplash Hijrah* I’ve been here and there looking for my Promised Land hearing sweet voices through the wall and the sound […]
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‘The Waterspout’ – a translation of Luis Vaz de Camões
The below is a translation by Mark McGuinness of a section of Os Lusíadas (‘The Luciads’), an epic poem by the 16th-century Portuguese poet Luis Vaz de Camões (c. […]
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‘On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble’: reading A. E. Housman
Nell Prince I partially recall A Shropshire Lad’s thirty-first poem, ‘On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble’, because it’s in a cinematic adaptation of Alan Bennet’s […]
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Two poems by Tamiko Dooley
Photo by S. Tsuchiya on Unsplash Susumu The sun beat down on Tokyo intensely: Forty-five in the shade. The matsu tree Stretched out across Susumu’s […]
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Two poems by Patrick Davidson Roberts
Photo by Javier Balseiro on Unsplash Caiaphas I am content with what I have done in my time, and have little to alter. You fit […]
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Two poems by Bernard Pearson
Photo by Simon Godfrey on Unsplash Manor Farm, Gotherington The walls stooped Under the weight of age. Windows frowned From gables Out towards Wicked, old, […]