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  • On ‘Summer/Break’ by Richie McCaffery

  • On ‘Central Air’ by George Bilgere

  • Three poems by Camille Francois

  • Three translations of Osip Mandelstam

  • ‘Not Harlem but Close’: a poem by Idman Omar

  • ‘Aged’: a poem by Stuart Henson

  • ‘Silence’: a poem by Jack Houston

  • Two poems by Tim Scott

  • On ‘Hollow Palaces: An Anthology of Modern Country House Poems’

  • ‘Landskein’: a poem by Jenny Pagdin

  • ‘Two Visions’ – a translation from the Estonian of Mathura

  • ‘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

On ‘Summer/Break’ by Richie McCaffery
On ‘Central Air’ by George Bilgere

‘Man of the region’: an appraisal of poet Will Burns

15 June 202115 June 2021

Will Burns in Wendover Woods, Buckinghamshire; photograph by Antonio Olmos       Jake Morris-Campbell, April 2021   May 2020, the seventh week of lockdown …

Two poems by John Challis

15 June 202115 June 2021

    The below poems are taken from John Challis’s debut collection, The Resurrectionists, forthcoming from Bloodaxe this month.         There’s been talk …

Two translations of Corrado Govoni

10 June 202110 June 2021

  Chiara Salomoni writes: Corrado Govoni was born near Ferrara in 1884 and died near Rome in 1965. He was a prolific writer of poetry, …

Fog Theory: lost in the white gaze

10 June 202114 July 2021

    Alycia Pirmohamed   “Fog is a cloud that touches the ground.”   A metaphor for vanishing, for dissolving, for withholding, fog often finds …

‘In Memoriam Alun Lewis’ – a poem by Byron Beynon

10 June 202110 June 2021

        In Memoriam Alun Lewis   1915-1944   From India you wrote of coming back and that isolation for youth to breathe and …

Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize 2021 winner: Karen Downs-Barton

10 June 202110 June 2021

  Karen Downs-Barton                                  

Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize 2021 runners-up

10 June 202110 June 2021

    Fintan Calpin                               Hannah Clayton         …

‘The Stillness of the Cows’ – a poem by Robert Etty

10 June 202115 June 2021

    Photo by Henrik Hjortshøj on Unsplash            The Stillness of the Cows   While summer’s delaying, they doze and graze, ruminate …

Three poems by William Thompson

1 June 20211 June 2021

        Toll   I hear the accusations like the Lutine Bell: nostalgie de la boue or blood and soil; found poetry or cento. …

‘The Insomniac’s Mouth’ – a poem by Satya Dash

1 June 20211 June 2021

        The Insomniac’s Mouth   drones like a cave ululating the breeze of an unmoored summer night. In a hotel room his lover …

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  • On ‘Summer/Break’ by Richie McCaffery 18 July 2022
  • On ‘Central Air’ by George Bilgere 18 July 2022
  • Three poems by Camille Francois 18 July 2022
  • Three translations of Osip Mandelstam 18 July 2022
  • ‘Not Harlem but Close’: a poem by Idman Omar 18 July 2022

 

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