Essential poetry from Wayleave Press
Richie McCaffery reviews two Wayleave Press pamphlets — Rib by Sharon Black and After by Jane Routh
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Saturday Morning
by Martin Figura — That paving slab the working week / squared away and set to rest, leave them / to their tea, their Chronicle, the felt pen reek / of circled ads, let unencumbered men // go, go, hungover in their dinted vans
Sort of Irish and sort of famous
Rory Waterman reveals the story behind his poem 'Like Father'
Hearts pressed with aspic
Emma Simon reviews Field Requiem by Sheri Benning (Carcanet, 2021)
Portrait of my mother as a hop-picker
by Liz Cashdan — She would never have done hop-picking / so this portrait is going to be difficult. / She hated the open air, the sunshine, // meeting up with ordinary folk
Castaway Companions
Castaway poet Anne-Marie Fyfe chooses three poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop to take to a desert island
Reading Banville
by Tim Relf — Cicatrice gets me googling, / as does horrent, minatory and coevals. Ditto deckle, flocculent and satyr. How / can I have got to 50 and not know so many words? How / can I have gone through this
Out of the Blue
Feature: Top prizes aren’t necessarily the preserve of established poets. The Friday Poem talks to five previously unpublished poets who won the biggest poetry competition in the UK
The page my barrow and my charge the word
Book Review: Stephen Payne reviews The Resurrectionists by John Challis (Bloodaxe, 2021)
The Last Time
by Ann Grey — The iPhone photo says University of Cambridge, Trinity Hall / 19th October 2018, which tells you nothing of the last day / we took our mother over Garrett Hostel Bridge, stopped to / watch the ducks
Under the Influence: How I became a (woman) poet
Feature: Sarah Corbett charts and celebrates twentieth century women poets and encourages women to read the work of their poetry mothers and grandmothers