I drove all the way to Cape Disappointment
Rachel Burns takes a close look at the opening poem of frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss
Archive
Crash the force shield of this screen
Emma Simon reviews The Kingdom by Jane Draycott (Carcanet, 2022)
of bodies / of light / of weightlessness
Khadija Rouf reviews Antonyms for Burial by Ellora Sutton (Fourteen Poems, 2022)
Fox
by Rachel Spence — A fox on a wet autumn night outside the British Museum / fleeing into a gas pipe as I chivvy you out of the building / into the rush-hour rainshine of car metal, headlights, // trampled leaves. I’m several steps ahead when / you
Strength in symbols – and silence
Bruno Cooke meets Santo Niña, the Filipino poet, journalist and activist who uses poetry and social media to give voice to the voiceless
Of difference, and of faith and its loss
Maggie Mackay reviews Hymnal by Julia Bell (Parthian, 2023)
A rebozo threaded by an ancient needle
Richie McCaffery reviews At Least This I Know by Andrés N. Ordorica (404 Ink, 2022)
Apple blossom
by Jackie Wills — The year Dylan's mother died / I picked sprays of apple blossom, / wound its pink, off-white shades / in raffia for you to take to him. // Every year it's out I think of us, / the children, how apples bring / the tree so low, until they thud
Poetry and Everyday Sexism
We talk to Kim Moore about her recent Forward prize-winning poetry collection and her new collection of lyric essays
Snowfall mixes with burning ash
Tim Murphy reviews To An Occupier Burning Holes by Ken Evans (Salt, 2022)
Catch the heart off guard and blow it open
Annie Fisher reviews Skin & Blister by Blake Morrison (Mariscat, 2023)
The Big Reveal
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