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A still from the 2D block game Minecraft. A small figure with a sword is running towards a large dragon ... One way or another it's going to be carnage.

You are the player. Wake up.

23/03/2023

Inigo Brodie on the story behind the Minecraft End Poem, and how sometimes poetry is the only option

Ender Dragon Image: Mojang/Microsoft

Continue ReadingYou are the player. Wake up.

The Big Reveal

23/03/2023

by Julie-Ann Rowell — Nantes, teeming rain like an angry child’s tears / and everything closed because it’s Monday. / We topple into a bar tabac. Men cluster / around tin-top tables, a fat Jack Russell / wandering despondently between their legs.

Continue ReadingThe Big Reveal
Section of a multi coloured book cover (think slightly psychedelic swirly greens pinks and purples). Part of the words "Dirty Martini" can be seen in block capitals.

SEQUINS NOW

23/03/2023

Isabelle Thompson reviews Dirty Martini by Natalie Shaw (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)

Continue ReadingSEQUINS NOW
A close up black and white picture of a fallen wine glass, and dark liquid is splashing out.

Blown like glass into brittle intricacies

23/03/2023

Hilary Menos reviews Slide by Mark Pajak (Cape, 2022)

Continue ReadingBlown like glass into brittle intricacies
Black text on white reads ‘Evening on the Porch by Jodie Hollander’ with a small quarter of a yellow Friday Poem blob sinking into the left bottom corner.

Evening on the Porch

17/03/2023

by Jodie Hollander — The rocking chair is rocking, / though no one sits in it / on this windless evening, / and yet this rocking, rocking, / back and forth as if / a soul could somehow wish / to be here once again / on long warm evenings

Continue ReadingEvening on the Porch
We see the back of a young girl standing on the stage at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. She is wearing a denim jacket and her arms are outstretched.

Choose a poem, learn it by heart, share it out loud

16/03/2023

Julie Blake, co-founder of Poetry By Heart, talks about the benefits of learning poetry, the joys of performance, and the Poetry By Heart national poetry speaking competition

Photos by Sam Strickland

Continue ReadingChoose a poem, learn it by heart, share it out loud
Imagine a map, then make the canvas black and take away everything apart from the roads (in off-white) and some dots where settlements might be, there you have it.

玫瑰, गुलाब, rose

16/03/2023

D.A. Prince reviews After all we have travelled by Sarala Estruch (Nine Arches Press, 2023)

Continue Reading玫瑰, गुलाब, rose
A photograph showing Reg Varney sitting in his London bus.If you're old enough you'll remember 'On the buses'. "That's made my day that has, that's really made my day."

This barter of enthusiasm 5

16/03/2023

Matthew Paul, Charlotte Gann and Rory Waterman choose poems by Geoff Hattersley, Kathy Pimlott and Wendy Cope

Continue ReadingThis barter of enthusiasm 5

The Dowry of Hera

10/03/2023

by Rebecca Ferrier — I am training myself in happiness through lemons: / think well, dart citrus to tongue, take joy’s embalmment as sweet lemonade. / Between an avenue of knuckle is a pip I squeeze from joint / and plant to yellow the outside.

Continue ReadingThe Dowry of Hera
Close up of text on Elizabeth Bishop's gravestone. Under her name It says "All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful"

All Quite Thoroughly Dirty (Part Two)

09/03/2023

Alan Buckley continues his close reading of ‘Filling Station’ by Elizabeth Bishop (Part Two)

Continue ReadingAll Quite Thoroughly Dirty (Part Two)
A woman holding a microphone. She is on stage with some funky purple and blue lighting.

This is for the poets

09/03/2023

Bruno Cooke says the new Forward Prize category for Best Single Poem – Performed shows that the literary establishment is finally starting to take an interest in Spoken Word Poetry

Continue ReadingThis is for the poets
Mostly orange and orange tinted cover showing what looks like a woman's face half hidden by something that appears to be a vertical semi transparent column with thin diagonal white stripes on it.

Monsoon night-song

09/03/2023

Steven Lovatt reviews Mother of Flip-Flops by Mukahang Limbu (Out-Spoken Press, 2022)

Continue ReadingMonsoon night-song
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