Archive
All Quite Thoroughly Dirty
Alan Buckley looks at ‘Filling Station’ by Elizabeth Bishop (Part One)
There are some things that can’t be washed away
Tim Murphy reviews Sing Me Down from the Dark by Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana (Salt, 2022)
Images of aftermath
Mat Riches reviews Exposed Staircase by Will Eaves (Rack Press, 2022)
The Biddy Boys
by Frank Dullaghan — Three times I called from outside. / Being the eldest girl, I was tasked to do so. / I bid them kneel and then entered / with an armful of rushes from the marsh, / which I heaped by the wall. / We prayed to St. Brigid, had a big pot
The difficult visiting times
Philip Gross discusses writing poetry about his family in The Wasting Game and Deep Field, the importance of self-knowledge, and what makes a 'good' poem
One Woman Revolution
Chris Edgoose reviews White/Other by Fran Lock
A slick torpedo hurled from the blue depths
Isabelle Thompson reviews Temporary Stasis by Lucy Holme (Broken Sleep Books, 2022)
Evolution
by Colm Scully — These days I remember things that never happened; / how the world was won / by us, through our evolution, / winning each fitness battle that we fought. // How we changed just the right amount / at just the right time
Poetry in Uganda
Rowan Bell visits Kampala and meets Mercy Geno Apachi, performance poet, and Jordan Megolonyo, founder of the Klan poetry house
More life!
Stephen Payne reviews Scenes from Life on Earth by Kathryn Simmonds (Salt, 2022)
Yielding to water
Clare Best reviews The Water People / Gens de l’eau by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, translated by Marilyn Hacker (Poetry Translation Centre, 2022)