The air is full of love
Bruno Cooke checks out a Lyrical Lunacy poetry open mic night in Bangkok
Bruno Cooke checks out a Lyrical Lunacy poetry open mic night in Bangkok
by Mark McDonnell — He arranges chairs, has quiet words / with waiters, reprises their old walks / in a golf buggy so she can get around ...
Hilary Menos reviews Contraflow: Lines of Englishness 1922–2022, selected by John Greening & Kevin Gardner (Renard, 2023)
by Sharon Black — The swing-seat is shaded / by hanging rhododendrons / whose leaves and flowers ...
Victoria Moul reviews Something, I Forget by Angela Leighton (Carcanet, 2023)
Helena Nelson mind-maps Absence by Ali Lewis (Cheerio, 2024)
by Dane Holt — The only records found in my grandmother’s attic / were by scorned women for scorned women / written by men ...
We talk to Ryan Van Winkle, the new Artistic Director for StAnza
Sam Dolbear and Adam Green look at some 9th century examples of "pattern poetry"
Carl Tomlinson reviews Between A Drowning Man by Martyn Crucefix (Salt, 2023)
Sarah Leavesley chooses poems by Matthew Arnold, Jacques Prévert and Lorine Niedecker
D.A. Prince reviews The Sessions by Jonathan Totman (Pindrop Press, 2023)