Let poems be the windows, not the views
Helena Nelson reviews Divisible by Itself and One by Kae Tempest (Picador, 2023)
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The Inheritors
by Christopher James — Before we gave up the farm to the scarecrows, / we trod the bounds one last time, following / the tracks ...
Soldier, astronaut, photographer, accountant … poet
Annie Fisher reviews The Remaining Men by Martin Figura (Cinnamon Press, 2024)
Holiday in Barlovia
Matthew Paul reviews A Land Between Borders by Mike Barlow (Templar Poetry, 2023)
Because this is a Venice Poem (after Tishani Doshi)
by Rachel Spence — Expect to hear the words lagoon, pigeon, crumbling. / Expect to read of water as desire ...
My oddly capable body
Isabelle Thompson reviews The Department of Work and Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish by Nuala Watt (Blue Diode, 2024)
Castaway Companions
Helen Evans chooses poems by Mary Oliver, William Stafford and Marie Howe, plus Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Kathryn Maris and Rebecca Elson
The air is full of love
Bruno Cooke checks out a Lyrical Lunacy poetry open mic night in Bangkok
Return to Ithaca
by Mark McDonnell — He arranges chairs, has quiet words / with waiters, reprises their old walks / in a golf buggy so she can get around ...
The little Englands of my grief
Hilary Menos reviews Contraflow: Lines of Englishness 1922–2022, selected by John Greening & Kevin Gardner (Renard, 2023)
Oh, someday, girl, I don’t know when
by Sharon Black — The swing-seat is shaded / by hanging rhododendrons / whose leaves and flowers ...
Flashes of brightwork
Victoria Moul reviews Something, I Forget by Angela Leighton (Carcanet, 2023)