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An instinct for pace and balance: on Ruth Padel’s ‘Beethoven Variations’
John Greening Some composers keep themselves out of their music, but in Beethoven the life is always peeping through. It seems natural, then, for Ruth Padel to […]
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Two poems by Adam Tavel
Photo by Jack Douglass on Unsplash Somerset County Cold Case Photo, 1980 Shot from its stoop, this garden shed brims March, a ripe compendium […]
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Three poems by Karen Ng
Touya From the corner of my eye I take out the stars crush each new flame into a thousand embers Purple pits and spoiled stitches answer […]
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Two poems by Nicola Healey
Anosmia ‘The natural world is not kind.’ – ‘How viruses shape the world’, The Economist (22nd August 2020) I live to smell the flowers. I’d […]
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A primer on the nature of hearing: on Seán Street’s ‘The Sound Recordist’
Kevin Gardner As Britain’s first professor of radio, Seán Street (emeritus professor at Bournemouth University) brings to the writing of poetry a unique perspective on sound. The […]
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Two poems by Matthew Paul
Chris Balderstone in action for Carlisle United and England The Last Corinthians for Ann and Peter Sansom A cricket bat slumped at the back […]
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‘claim your ghost’ – a poem by Charlie Baylis
claim your ghost for sophie a night of solitude by the river driftwood floating through the distance thinking back to the time before you were […]
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‘Meccano Magazine’ – a poem by Bernard O’Donoghue
Meccano Magazine Bridge May Riordan ordered it for me From London. Being educational, It was exempt from the 2d Purchase Tax, Which was ironic because, in […]
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‘Fear of Language’ – a Katja Perat poem translated
Nicoletta Asciuto writes: Katja Perat is a contemporary Slovenian poet and novelist. Her first poetry collection, Najboljši so padli (The Best Have Fallen), was published by Beletrina (Ljubljana) […]
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‘Man of the region’: an appraisal of poet Will Burns
Will Burns in Wendover Woods, Buckinghamshire; photograph by Antonio Olmos Jake Morris-Campbell, April 2021 May 2020, the seventh week of lockdown measures. It’s about 9.30 in the morning and I’m […]
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Two poems by John Challis
The below poems are taken from John Challis’s debut collection, The Resurrectionists, forthcoming from Bloodaxe this month. There’s been talk of a child born […]
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Two translations of Corrado Govoni
Chiara Salomoni writes: Corrado Govoni was born near Ferrara in 1884 and died near Rome in 1965. He was a prolific writer of poetry, prose and drama. Govoni joined […]
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Fog Theory: lost in the white gaze
Alycia Pirmohamed “Fog is a cloud that touches the ground.” A metaphor for vanishing, for dissolving, for withholding, fog often finds its way into my poetry. […]
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‘In Memoriam Alun Lewis’ – a poem by Byron Beynon
In Memoriam Alun Lewis 1915-1944 From India you wrote of coming back and that isolation for youth to breathe and grow. Later when the history […]
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Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize 2021 winner: Karen Downs-Barton
Karen Downs-Barton
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Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize 2021 runners-up
Fintan Calpin Hannah Clayton […]
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‘The Stillness of the Cows’ – a poem by Robert Etty
Photo by Henrik Hjortshøj on Unsplash The Stillness of the Cows While summer’s delaying, they doze and graze, ruminate over landscapes all day, lie […]
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Three poems by William Thompson
Toll I hear the accusations like the Lutine Bell: nostalgie de la boue or blood and soil; found poetry or cento. Nonetheless it makes the Mersey […]
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‘The Insomniac’s Mouth’ – a poem by Satya Dash
The Insomniac’s Mouth drones like a cave ululating the breeze of an unmoored summer night. In a hotel room his lover waits, the city’s roads sliming […]
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Two poems by Alwyn Marriage
Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash Compass point Compass north can wander many miles apart from true north, and it alters every year; so explorers […]