Big Barn Migration
by D.W. Evans — The bowed roof of the side-less barn / shows and tells two things easily: / firstly, red oxidised neglect runs like bloody farewells
Archive
We are always saying goodbye
Castaway Martyn Crucefix chooses poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edward Thomas and Rainer Maria Rilke to take to his desert island
Working off the movement of the earth in space
D.A. Prince reviews Dynamo by Luke Samuel Yates (The Poetry Business, 2023)
Letters to Linda
Hilary Menos responds to Letters to Katłįà by Linda France, winner of the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year prize 2022-2023,
Swimmers
by William Thompson — Next time you dive / into a public swimming pool / think of the taxes, / the architects, the builders, // the water gushing
The Censored Women of Les Fleurs du Mal
Pedro Baños Gallego on the 'forbidden' poems in Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal
All the blues and greens
Isabelle Thompson reviews Say It With Me by Vanessa Lampert (Seren, 2023)
These moments, rare and marvellous
Jane Routh reviews The Guest Room by Diana Hendry (Worple Press, 2022)
Dog-walking in a Cemetery
by Helen Kay — The older headstones, snug in lichen / shawls, lean towards me, console. / Do they scent my old friend’s death? // The dog
Untitled
The Frip looks at how to find the right title for your poem (or at least not the wrong one)
A Community Reimagined
Chris Edgoose reviews Medlars by Geraldine Clarkson (Shearsman, 2023)
recently i’ve been daydreaming of pete davidson
Mat Riches reviews Poems For Pete Davidson by Ella Sadie Guthrie (Broken Sleep, 2022)