The Frip
To hear their voice bounce off the shape of things
Rory Waterman reviews This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings (Carcanet, 2022)
How else were you to mend lineage?
Isabelle Thompson reviews Ixora by Prerana Kumar (Guillemot Press, 2023)
There’s space for all of us
We talk to Di Slaney of Candlestick Press about about publishing poetry that appeals to non-poets, whether poetry should be able to pay for itself, and the joy of wonky animals
A basic beginning in tegnsprog
Carl Tomlinson reviews The House of the Interpreter by Lisa Kelly (Carcanet, 2023)
Our version of the sea not quite knowing how to touch the land
Mat Riches reviews Landsick by Genevieve Carver (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)
A lesson for all
Rowan Bell on Ukrainian-American graphic artist Paul Peter Piech and his bold illustrations of poetry
The weight of history
Matthew Paul reviews Selected Poems 1983–2023 by Ian Parks (Calder Valley Poetry, 2023)
Unfashionable almost to the point of provocation
Victoria Moul reviews Arctic Elegies by Peter Davidson (Carcanet, 2022)
We are always saying goodbye
Castaway Martyn Crucefix chooses poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edward Thomas and Rainer Maria Rilke to take to his desert island
Working off the movement of the earth in space
D.A. Prince reviews Dynamo by Luke Samuel Yates (The Poetry Business, 2023)
Letters to Linda
Hilary Menos responds to Letters to Katłįà by Linda France, winner of the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year prize 2022-2023,
The Censored Women of Les Fleurs du Mal
Pedro Baños Gallego on the 'forbidden' poems in Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal