Search the Archive.New, hopeful arrangements Castaway: Christopher Arksey chooses poems from Philip Larkin, Christopher Reid and U.A. Fanthorpe to take to his desert island Ah, bostid is the golden bowel! Feature: Steven Lovatt on ‘Standard English’ poetry and it’s discontents A tinderbox to light all the world’s wanting Book Review: Rachael Matthews reviews The Home Child by Liz Berry (Chatto & Windus, 2023) This barter of enthusiasm 8 Feature: Roy Marshall, Kathryn Gray and Mark Antony Owen choose poems by Suzannah Evans, James Fenton and Connie Bensley The Wheel by Kathryn Bevis — our Friday Poem on 15/09/23 Snowday by Ian Harker — our Friday Poem on 28/07/23 To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life Feature: Sarah Mnatzaganian gives us a tour of her poetry bookshelf Learning to read with Mallarmé, the most obscure of all poets Feature: Bertrand Marchal discusses why Mallarmé wanted to make poetry so difficult for readers to understand No one wears Brooches anymore Book Review: Hilary Menos reviews Savage Tales by Tara Bergin (Carcanet, 2022) The Climbing Frame by Sarah Corbett — our Friday Poem on 21/07/23 What are poets really after? Feature: Helena Nelson considers the pros and cons of the 'after' epigraph, and discusses the joy of treasure-hunting references, the accessibility (or otherwise) of contemporary poetry, and the necessary art of bluffing To hear their voice bounce off the shape of things Book Review: Rory Waterman reviews This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings (Carcanet, 2022) ‹ 1 2 3 4 … 35 ›