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Outflanking Instapoets, blowing trumpets, and the revenge of the humanities
Bruno Cooke on the challenge AI poses to poetry (or not).
Jun 12 • The Friday Poem
Compassion in strange places
Matthew Paul on the life and poetry of Patricia Beer
Jun 8 • The Friday Poem
The grief I cast is for me
Matthew Paul celebrates the life and poetry of Ted Walker
Jun 8 • The Friday Poem
May this teaspoon teach my tongue the taste of lunch hour
Matthew Paul reviews 'Lemonade in the Armenian Quarter' by Sarah Mnatzaganian (Against the Grain, 2022)
Jun 8 • The Friday Poem
Life and love
Matthew Paul reviews 'Lanyard' by Peter Sansom (Carcanet, 2022)
Jun 8 • The Friday Poem
A way of saying
Matthew Paul reviews 'Fool' by Greta Stoddart (Bloodaxe, 2022)
Jun 8 • The Friday Poem
What I think about when I think about English-Language Haiku
On form, spirit and resonance: an essay with three commentaries by Matthew Paul
Jun 8 • The Friday Poem
The weight of history
Matthew Paul reviews 'Selected Poems 1983–2023' by Ian Parks (Calder Valley Poetry, 2023)
Jun 8 • The Friday Poem
Duster Bennett live at Frank Freeman’s
Matthew Paul reviews 'New and Selected Poems' by Cliff Yates (Smith|Doorstop, 2023)
Jun 8 • The Friday Poem
If Tarring Neville was not a village but a procedure
Matthew Paul reviews 'Instead of an Alibi' by Geoff Hattersley (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)
Jun 8 • The Friday Poem
Holiday in Barlovia
Matthew Paul reviews 'A Land Between Borders' by Mike Barlow (Templar Poetry, 2023)
Jun 8 • The Friday Poem
SEQUINS NOW
Isabelle Thompson reviews 'Dirty Martini' by Natalie Shaw (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)
Jun 8 • The Friday Poem
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