Archive
What’s left at the end of the world
Maggie Mackay reviews Sensitive to Temperature by Serena Alagappan (Smith|Doorstop Books, 2023)
Paradise of garagistes
Chris Edgoose reviews Impasse: for Jules Maigret by Sean O’Brien (Hercules Editions, 2023)
Waves of lavender shadow growing darker in their blueness
Alan Buckley reviews Up Late by Nick Laird (Faber, 2023)
The forest’s edge
Charlotte Gann reviews Beyond the Gate by Clare Best (Worple Press, 2023)
They cannot subtract me
Stephen Payne reviews Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science by Jessy Randall (Goldsmiths Press, 2022)
Something honeylike that makes me lean in closer
D.A. Prince reviews Before We Go Any Further by Tristram Fane Saunders (Carcanet, 2023)
* […] Mol is an imaginary friend, the latest fad everyone wants to get their hands on [go to page 18]
Isabelle Thompson reviews Making Sense by Dide (Verve Poetry, 2023)
Poetry for children: where do we start?
Annie Fisher gathers together the best children's poetry, and the best children's poetry anthologies
A curlew flings its loop of sound
Rowan Bell travels to Amble to talk to poet, historian and broadcaster Katrina Porteous
A simple tree rooted in a quiet dream
Helena Nelson considers the pros and cons of Tree Poetry
The Lies of Owls
Rebecca Ferrier explores truth, doubt, and lies in poetry, and looks at how poems can act as windows into our past selves