Walking The Hill
by Pam Zinnemann-Hope — Here I am, walking up Pope’s Hill / on the tarmac track. / It’s a cold January day, / the track’s very steep ...
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How wholly are we to be pressed?
Will Snelling reviews God Complex by Rachael Allen (Faber, 2024)
Pangolins and Plainsong
Annie Fisher reviews Words of Mercury by Alasdair Paterson (Shearsman Books, 2024)
East Dubuque Sandbar 1959
by Robert Halleck — Feltes Motors searchlight scans the sky. / Mid August, rain coming soon. / Children’s holes to China left from the day ...
A voice from the silence
Jane Routh reviews The Silence by Gillian Clarke (Carcanet, 2024)
‘How to’ Poetry — Part Two
We review books on poetry from Fly on the Wall Press and Smith|Doorstop
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Jeanette Burton — There in the audience, my mother and me, / lights yet to be dimmed, unwrapping ...
I eat clean but train dirty. That’s perfection.
D. A. Prince reviews Taking Liberties by Leontia Flynn (Cape, 2024)
‘How To’ Poetry — Part One
We review books on poetry from Nine Arches Press and Roger Robinson
Wetsuit
by Regina Weinert — The hollow body hangs / in the cupboard under the stairs / headless hands and feet // detached ...
Poetry on social media: riding the wave
Bruno Cooke looks at three poets who successfully integrate social media into their poetic method
The Ark wasn’t always a toy
Karen Smith reviews Noah by Penelope Shuttle (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)