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And lo! the people came

08/02/2022

The Live at the Butchery Zoom readings won the Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Night 2021 (despite being on at four in the afternoon). Hosts Helen Ivory and Martin Figura tell us all about them

When you are being eaten by vultures they will leave your face alone

07/02/2022

Hilary Menos reviews Jongleur by Rennie Parker (Shoestring, 2021)

by Mat Riches — She would no doubt accuse me of esquivalience / if I didn’t tell you about the world famous / fountain designer, Lillian Mountweazel. Despite / her death in an explosion while taking pictures

Castaway Companions

04/02/2022

We asked poets to choose three poems which they would take with them if they were stranded on a desert island. We wanted to know where they first read them, why they have particular significance and how they have impacted their own work. Read their responses — funny, moving and eloquent.