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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

An extract from ‘Book of Days’ by Phoebe Power

2 October 20214 October 2021

  The following is an extract from Book of Days, a long poem recounting a journey along the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in …

Three poems from ‘Starting Eleven’ by Matthew Stewart

2 October 20214 October 2021

Left: Aldershot striker Mike Ring (16 goals in 76 appearances) with a diving header Right: Midfielder Ian McDonald, flanked by Bill Shankly, signing for Liverpool …

‘The Southern Belle’ – a poem by Polly McCormack

15 September 202115 September 2021

Photo by Dovi on Unsplash         The Southern Belle   In 1812, when the building was first built, they infused the wallpaper with …

An instinct for pace and balance: on Ruth Padel’s ‘Beethoven Variations’

15 September 202115 September 2021

    John Greening   Some composers keep themselves out of their music, but in Beethoven the life is always peeping through. It seems natural, …

Two poems by Adam Tavel

15 September 202115 September 2021

    Photo by Jack Douglass on Unsplash            Somerset County Cold Case Photo, 1980   Shot from its stoop, this garden shed …

Three poems by Karen Ng

15 September 202120 September 2021

        Touya   From the corner of my eye I take out the stars crush each new flame into a thousand embers Purple …

Two poems by Nicola Healey

14 July 202111 October 2021

        Anosmia   ‘The natural world is not kind.’ – ‘How viruses shape the world’, The Economist (22nd August 2020)   I live …

A primer on the nature of hearing: on Seán Street’s ‘The Sound Recordist’

14 July 202114 July 2021

    Kevin Gardner   As Britain’s first professor of radio, Seán Street (emeritus professor at Bournemouth University) brings to the writing of poetry a …

Two poems by Matthew Paul

14 July 202114 July 2021

Chris Balderstone in action for Carlisle United and England           The Last Corinthians   for Ann and Peter Sansom   A cricket …

‘claim your ghost’ – a poem by Charlie Baylis

14 July 202115 July 2021

        claim your ghost   for sophie   a night of solitude by the river driftwood floating through the distance thinking back to …

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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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