Embraceable You
Stephen Payne reviews Last Poems? by Brendan Cleary (Tall Lighthouse Press, 2023)
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La vigne fait maille pour maille
Victoria Moul reviews Rainer Maria Rilke, Change Your Life. Essential Poems, selected, translated and introduced by Martyn Crucefix (Pushkin Press Classics, 2024).
The complete story
Nadia Kabir Barb gives us The Whole Kahani, a collective of British fiction writers of South Asian origin
The Sound of the Struggle
by Charles Rammelkamp — I always saw our name / as a wave coming in to shore, / the curl of the 'r', the undulant 'm's, / the finality of the 'p' lapping the beach ...
Five Forward poems under the microscope
Helena Nelson and Hilary Menos discuss the five poems shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (Written)
Pears Soap
by Damaris West — It’s the shape of a red blood cell. / Rolled between palms, / like a stick to make fire // it thins to a slippery / cuttlebone sliver of new moon ...
The art of loneliness
Annie Fisher reviews Night Window by Ian Seed (Shearsman, 2024)
Lights Out
by Christian Wethered — When you close your eyes after lights out /
see how long it takes – // when the dormitory door swings shut / and you rub thighs against the sheets ...
O linger Sapphos of the lash-line!
Alan Buckley reviews PLUS ULTRA by Sarah Fletcher (CHEERIO, 2023)
The hairier I am, the sexier I feel
Bruno Cooke ranks the five poems shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize for Best Single Poem – Performed 2024
Bookcase
by Derek Coggrave — Gravity strengthens where poetry collects on shelves: / the plastic track holding the glass doors has sagged / leaving the doors ...
Oboes, pine cones, pangolins
Jane Routh reviews Missing the Man Next Door by Annie Fisher (Mariscat, 2024)