Three poems by Oliver Comins
Oliver writes: These are part of a ‘calendar’ of 12 poems set in Pitshanger Park, near where I live in Ealing. The Park is …
‘All the Roads that Lead to Eminescu’: on the great Romanian poet
Andreea Iulia Scridon The name Mihai Eminescu isn’t likely to ring an immediate bell for Anglophone readers, but would certainly deserve to, …
Two Pintle poems by Rory Waterman
Re: Application FAO Dr Bob Pintle Senior Lecturer in Professional Creativity, Peterborough University and also dedicated to Dr Andrew Taylor, who did …
Three poems by Alison Brackenbury
Chance: a dream Yes. It was you. From its small source my heart rushed like a flooded beck. But would you …
From ‘the garden sonnets’: three poems by Andrew McMillan
it’s hard at first to comprehend the sleeping man so horizontal all through the day so sleepy despite the hours spent seemingly at …
Pixel Perfect: Stephen Sexton’s ‘If All the World and Love Were Young’
Chris Larkin When I was seven or eight years old, I was desperate to own either a Sega Mega Drive or a …
Thom Gunn’s carnival: a radical inside job
Thom Gunn, 1986. Photograph by LaVerne Harrell Clark. Courtesy of The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Copyright Arizona Board of Regents Andre …
Two poems by Lisa Kelly
Below are two poems from Lisa Kelly’s debut collecton A Map Towards Fluency, recently published by Carcanet. Colchester Native …
‘Allotment Evening’: a poem by Helen Calcutt
Allotment Evening You left the fire burning. The smoke stirred like a person moving among the brassicas and twine, and …
‘Alfreton Town 0, Brackley Town 1’: a poem by Rory Waterman
Alfreton Town 0, Brackley Town 1 (89’) for Lloyd Pettiford and Adam Tocock The pitch is white where the …