Vivat Mariscat
The Friday Poem talks to Hamish Whyte of Mariscat Press
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Bullets, grenade-shards, mortar casings and barricades
Tim Murphy reviews Notes from the North by Suji Kwock Kim (Smith|Doorstop, 2022)
Bone white, star bright
Stephen Payne reviews Feeling Unusual by Ann Drysdale (Shoestring Press, 2022)
Quellenstraße, 1100
by Kathryn Gray — February—and I was young. / Spring Street! My blue bag was swinging // in uncommon warmth, even the shadowed / shapes of pavement under awnings // seemed ripe with a peculiar kindness / and promise. The snows, at last
Castaway Companions
Castaway poet Rachael Matthews choses poems by Jennifer L Knox, Adrienne Rich, and Kathleen Jamie for her desert island stay
The making of a new crown
D.A. Prince reviews A Little Resurrection by Selina Nwulu (Bloomsbury, 2022)
You make a mirrorball out of the rain
Mat Riches reviews Glut by Ramona Herdman (Nine Arches, 2022)
Old Woman Ravine
by Jennifer Copley — No one knows where it is. / Maybe behind the sloping granite stones / of Carlingill or in the dip / between Hobdale and the sea? // The old woman who lives there / has been heard cursing anyone who seeks her or her place
With a pink and a pink and a pinkie-pick
Unpack a Poem: Steven Lovatt on 'The Loaf' by Paul Muldoon
Letting the shadow out of the box
Hilary Menos reviews Turn Up the Ocean by Tony Hoagland (Bloodaxe, 2022)
SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP FOX SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP
Emma Simon reviews What the sheep taught me by Mary Mulholland (Live Canon, 2022)
Double first, 1957
by Beatrice Garland — Judy in rose chiffon balancing / on four inch heels like blades / makes a late entrance / to the Dean's sherry party / for the First Years in the College library — / and everyone stops talking. // The MG she arrived in can be heard