Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth (1833)
Hunter Dukes on an eighty page poem by 'The Poet Laureate of Dentistry'
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Vlad Dracul Is Pissed Off That You People Killed His Wife
by Matthew Bullen — I’m sitting in a rough deck chair / in a tiny gravel park on the edge / of what the city calls its town square / for the arts ...
Nothing left to carve but the eye
Helena Nelson reviews Exposure by Eric Yip (Ignition Press, 2024)
A commitment to honour women
Khadija Rouf reviews A Coalition of Cheetahs by Doreen Gurrey and Spin by Laurie Bolger
My Dog Brings me Back to Death
by Victoria Gatehouse — When he doesn’t respond to my call / I leave the path, push bracken aside / to find him rolling on badger pelt ...
Making sense of an often-meaningless world
Bruno Cooke talks to Darby Hudson, the bearded Australian poet in the cuddly jumper
Evoking the Natural World
Rowan Bell talks to Katrina Porteous about the power of dialect words, plagiarism, and writing for radio
Designated Driver
by A. A. Gunther — Let them depend on me for once, I think. / I’ll buy their drinks. Get them the round for free, / Let them depend on me ...
Say I was born in peacetime
Annie Fisher reviews Ruin, Blossom by John Burnside (Cape, 2024)
Oh tears and blood
Hilary Menos reviews The Snow Globe by Jenny Pagdin (Nine Arches, 2024)
Clothesline in Summer
by Michael P. Aleman — In Chicago during the 1950’s / my mother’s clothesline was a study in white / (or grayish white, to be accurate) ...
Sequins stay sequins
D. A. Prince reviews The Asking: New and Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield (Bloodaxe, 2024)