Insomnia
by James Nixon — How did I ever fall to sleep easy as pressing the basement button / in an elevator sinking through the floors of my mind / and coming to rest
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The Joy of Cycling
Our Spoken Word Editor Bruno Cooke is off round the world on two wheels. He considers the joy of cycling, in poetry.
Rare is this wrought-work
Carl Tomlinson reviews Earth House by Matthew Hollis (Bloodaxe, 2023)
Limos : acceptance, smirom : peace
Maggie Mackay reviews Didicoy by Karen Downs-Barton (Smith|Doorstop Books, 2023)
Collateral
by Helen Evans — And if you let go, for a while, / of whatever is damaging you, / and head for a good place // like this woodland, whose heart / was ripped out by bombs / dropped
Unicorn flavour
We talk to Aaron Kent, poet, editor, and publisher of Broken Sleep Books
Meanwhile in Camelot
Helena Nelson reviews The Big Calls by Glyn Maxwell (Live Canon, 2023)
What do our new regular reviewers say?
Our new reviewers to tell us what they think about poetry and reviewing
What does Tim Murphy say?
I learned to appreciate poetry at school in Cork. Work by Yeats, Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Patrick Kavanagh, Thomas Kinsella ...
Holy
by Serena Alagappan — Holy those colors in rain / after drought, a puddled vow, / iris damp and aching. // Holy the indigo aura / that casts doubt on a landscape’s / verity.
What does Alan Buckley say?
My journey into writing poetry as an adult wasn’t straightforward. I’d written a lot as a child, albeit mainly stories ...