Beyond the Bubble
Matthew Stewart asks how poetry can reach out to a wider readership
Archive
Three pamphlets: Richie McCaffery, Phoebe Stuckes and Julia Bird
Mat Riches reviews Coping Stones by Richie McCaffery, Emma Simon reviews The One Girl Gremlin by Phoebe Stuckes and Hilary Menos reviews is, thinks Pearl by Julia Bird
Here is Bernie Saunders in Mittens
by Roy Marshall — next to Churchill at Yalta; at a bar mitzvah; being painted / by Bob Ross; on skyscraper beam above 1920’s New York. // Bernie responded to the explosion of memes
We need to pay attention to those who are calling it like they see it
In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to James Conor Patterson about the four-way auction over his debut collection with Picador, the real Newry and why poetry is capturing the zeitgeist
Like a bride with a posy of stout
Steven Lovatt reviews Cheryl’s Destinies by Stephen Sexton (Penguin, 2021)
Pathé News Visits the Ace of Spades
by Matthew Paul — The crew don’t capture Noël and Ivor snorting cocaine / off the black-marble bar; the gargoyles they actually film / are me and my pals: Marcel waves
Punk Poetry – bitten the dust or alive and well?
Hilary Menos looks back at the poets who embodied the spirit of punk in the 1970s and 80s and asks where are the punk poets of today?
The thing itself
Charlotte Gann reviews When the Swimming Pool Fell in the Sea by Carole Coates (Shoestring, 2021)
What the Doorman Says
by Ben Wilkinson — That he could kill for a smoke. / That the punters get older every year. / That really, he hardly ever has to lay a finger. / That even arterial blood washes right out. / That the fella with the dog
Lyric Essay / Autism / Nature / Around Me / The Lakes
Feature: Lyric Essay / Autism / Nature / Around Me / The Lakes
by Jane Burn
Traces
Chris Edgoose reviews The Dereliction by Liz Berry and Tom Hicks (Hercules Editions, 2021)