Staring an instant out of the dark
Cliff Yates treats us to a tour of his poetry bookshelf
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After What You Have Been Through
by Lex Runciman — If you have roses, it would be good / to water them now, though it be late, late / September ...
‘Next time you dive’ (or How to play a poem)
Jon Stone takes a deep dive into how he approaches a poem
Resisting the shadows
Clare Best reviews MX SIMP by Kate Hendry (Mariscat Press, 2023)
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
Zoë Walkington on how she managed to merge her two identities as poet and psychologist
The dull click-clink of gold against formica
Isabelle Thompson reviews I Think We’re Alone Now by Abigail Parry (Bloodaxe Books, 2023)
The Heavyweight Champion of the World
Hilary Menos reviews Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire by Dane Holt (The Lifeboat, 2023)
Are Poetry Reviews Pointless?
Helena Nelson plays with Shapeshifting for Beginners by Emma Simon (Salt, 2023)
Morphine Driver
by Nia Broomhall — We could hear it was working from the soft shunt of fluid / through the tube and the reassuring whisper // she’s fine ...
Across the empty field
Victoria Moul reviews The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse edited by Kaveh Akbar (Penguin, 2023)
Letters on the Centenary of Harmonium
Paul Stephenson and Lisa Kelly exchange letters on the poetry of Wallace Stevens