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Staring an instant out of the dark

Feature: Cliff Yates treats us to a tour of his poetry bookshelf

After What You Have Been Through

by Lex Runciman, our featured poet for January 2024

‘Next time you dive’ (or How to play a poem)

Feature: Jon Stone on what we need to do to broaden the readership of poetry

Castaway Companions

Castaway Companions: Jill Abram chooses poems by Edward Lear, Lemn Sissay and Jacqueline Saphra to take to her desert island

Uncomfortable Bedfellows – Criminal Psychology and Writing Poetry

Feature: Uncomfortable Bedfellows – Zoe Walkington on Criminal Psychology and Writing Poetry

The dull click-clink of gold against formica

Book Review: Isabelle Thompson reviews I Think We’re Alone Now by Abigail Parry (Bloodaxe Books, 2023)

The Heavyweight Champion of the World

Book Review: Hilary Menos reviews Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire by Dane Holt (The Lifeboat, 2023)

Are Poetry Reviews Pointless?

Feature / Book Review: Is it possible to review poetry in a more imaginative way? Inspired by Jon Stone’s Poems Are Toys, Helena Nelson reports on Shapeshifting for Beginners by Emma Simon (Salt, 2023)

Morphine Driver

by Nia Broomhall, our featured poet for December 2023

Across the empty field

Book Review: Victoria Moul reviews The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 101 Poets on the Divine edited by Kaveh Akbar (Penguin, 2023)

Sing a Song of Sixpence

Feature: Poet and financial journalist Emma Simon selects six poems about money

Castaway Companions

Castaway Companions: Vanessa Lampert chooses poems by Matthew Dickman, Dorianne Laux and Karen Solie to take to her desert island
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