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‘In Every House Nobody Sleeps’: a poem by Tom Branfoot
Image by Pech Frantisek from Pixabay In Every House Nobody Sleeps nocturnal out here in wild escape the gauzy texture of extreme heat […]
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New poems by Nick Makoha
Hollywood Africans The only thing that was certain was that it was June and we had spilt a pepperoni pizza between us. An ultraviolet light set […]
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‘Him’: a poem by Maeve McKenna
Image by chin1031 from Pixabay Him Our wonderful man with metal hands, his huge heart physical inside us. Our tiny steps in his shoes. […]
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On ‘Fear of Forks’ by Hilary Menos
Matthew Stewart One of the main reasons for exerting restraint in poetry is to play with what is held back, left unsaid. The portrayal of linguistic and […]
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‘Speak Wealth’: a poem by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs
Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash Michael writes: Both the title and tone of this poem are inspired by Michèle Lalonde’s famous 1974 macaronic poem ‘Speak White’ […]
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‘Cabbages’: a poem by Christopher Horton
The poem below appears in Christopher Horton’s pamphlet, Perfect Timing, published by tall-lighthouse and available to purchase here. ‘Cabbages’ ruminates on the speaker’s grandfather and a series of wartime […]
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On ‘Book of Days’ by Phoebe Power
Rob A. Mackenzie Book of Days (Carcanet, 2022) is Phoebe Power’s account of making the ‘Camino’, a pilgrimage from St Jean Pied de Port in France to […]
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‘Blue Mountain’: a poem by Sarala Estruch
Photo by Yves Alarie on Unsplash Blue Mountain We had passed halfway point. Every muscle in my body was singing, brimming with lactic […]
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Two poems by Oliver Comins
Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash An Away Match One long and wide hall filled with dancers limbering and jostling at each of three […]
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‘Parts of us regenerate, others don’t’: On Dan O’Brien
James Peake The photojournalist and Pulitzer-prize winner, Paul Watson, is a friend, collaborator and in “complicated ways, almost family” to the poet and playwright Dan O’Brien. […]
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A poem from ‘A Separate Appointment’ by Rebecca Farmer
The poem below appears in Rebecca Farmer’s new pamphlet, A Separate Appointment, published by New Walk Editions on 16th November. Rebecca will be launching A Separate Appointment jointly on […]
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Peter Redgrove: Dreaming in a Wakeful World
Peter Redgrove, sometime in the 1970s John Greening discusses Peter Redgrove and his poetry. Based on a talk given to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Falmouth […]
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On ‘Moving Day’ by Jenny King
Regina Weinert “Jenny King was born in London during the Blitz and wrote poetry from childhood”, start the short biographical notes in King’s second and third pamphlets, Tenants and Midsummer, published […]
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Two poems by Jack Warren
Photo by Ahmed Zayan on Unsplash from Five Poems for Mushrooms Collared Earth Star Undeterred by lax mornings of noiseless rain. I […]
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‘All our past lives’: on Emily Berry’s ‘Unexhausted Time’
Nicola Healey I have long admired the way Emily Berry’s poetry handles complex thought, not just feeling, within carefully considered sentences, her intelligent sensitivity to our interior […]
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Three poems by Daniel Bennett
Photo by Krišjānis Kazaks on Unsplash Chris’s Room When Auden bought his first home- a farmhouse in Kirchstetten- he wept tears of happiness for […]
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Two poems by Kate Behrens
Photo by 青 晨 on Unsplash CT Scan When x-rayed in slices, at least an idea of wholeness shrinks into blatant meat: bone, […]
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On ‘High Desert’ by André Naffis-Sahely
Richie McCaffery It’s been a long time since I enjoyed a collection of poetry as much as André Naffis-Sahely’s new offering, High Desert (Bloodaxe, 2022). That said, […]
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On ‘Glut’ by Ramona Herdman
Matthew Stewart It might initially seem snide or negative to suggest that a poet’s work is best represented by their idiosyncratic use of one specific punctuation mark, […]
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Two poems by Paul Stephenson
Photo of Tbilisi by Eugene Chystiakov on Unsplash Climbing Tbilisi Above the brick-domed baths of Abanotubani, rare trees ache with invasion and enemy grab. City spreads, […]