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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

Two poems by Mat Riches

24 November 202124 November 2021

Photo by Tim Foster on Unsplash           Captain’s Pond   I didn’t expect to find myself beside you, swatting flies and leaves …

On ‘Map of a Plantation’ by Jenny Mitchell

15 November 202116 November 2021

    Daniel Bennett   The title of Jenny Mitchell’s follow-up collection to 2019’s Her Lost Language begins with a gesture to objectivity. Map of …

Two poems by Tuesday Shannon

10 November 202110 November 2021

    Photo by Khara Woods on Unsplash            Catechism   In the vestibule, Mum dips her hand in holy water, blesses each …

‘Ancestors’ – a poem by Alan Buckley

10 November 202110 November 2021

    Photo by Eva Wilcock on Unsplash            Ancestors   Their voices – those we barely remember, those we never knew – …

A psycho-geographer slipping the coordinates of time: on Tim Cumming

2 November 20214 November 2021

    Julian Stannard   ‘You sit/down to put into words your reckoning.’   I don’t read Tim Cumming with any expectation of the anodyne. …

Handbrake turn on a hair-pin bend: Lavinia Greenlaw and poetic feat

28 October 202128 October 2021

  This essay was originally published by Wild Court on 1st March 2016. Lavinia Greenlaw will be taking part in the latest online ‘Poetry And…’ …

Discovering George Mackay Brown

12 October 202112 October 2021

    John Greening marks the centenary of the birth of George Mackay Brown (1921-1996), which falls this Sunday, 17th October.     The June …

‘Lapis lazuli’ – a poem by Alexandra Fössinger

12 October 202112 October 2021

    Photo by Shifaaz Shamoon on Unsplash            Lapis lazuli   On a Sardinian beach, the ambulant vendor shifts through white vesicles …

Poems of Community and Historical Memory: an interview with Ian Parks

2 October 20212 October 2021

Portrait of Ian Parks by Andrew Farmer       Ian Parks was born in 1959 and is the author of eight collections of poems, …

Two new poems by Ian Parks

2 October 20212 October 2021

  An interview with Ian, in which he discusses themes explored in the following poems, is up concurrently on Wild Court here.         …

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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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