The Frip
My oddly capable body
Isabelle Thompson reviews The Department of Work and Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish by Nuala Watt (Blue Diode, 2024)
Castaway Companions
Helen Evans chooses poems by Mary Oliver, William Stafford and Marie Howe, plus Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Kathryn Maris and Rebecca Elson
The air is full of love
Bruno Cooke checks out a Lyrical Lunacy poetry open mic night in Bangkok
Flashes of brightwork
Victoria Moul reviews Something, I Forget by Angela Leighton (Carcanet, 2023)
Everything so insistently next to everything else
Helena Nelson mind-maps Absence by Ali Lewis (Cheerio, 2024)
Ah, bostid is the golden bowel!
Steven Lovatt on dialect poetry
A tinderbox to light all the world’s wanting
Rachael Matthews reviews The Home Child by Liz Berry (Chatto & Windus, 2023)
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life
Sarah Mnatzaganian gives us a tour of her poetry bookshelf
Learning to read with Mallarmé, the most obscure of all poets
Bertrand Marchal discusses why Mallarmé wanted to make poetry so difficult for readers to understand
No one wears Brooches anymore
Hilary Menos reviews Savage Tales by Tara Bergin (Carcanet, 2022
What are poets really after?
Helena Nelson considers the pros and cons of the ‘after’ epigraph, poetry’s exclusive codes, and the necessary art of bluffing