Oh, someday, girl, I don’t know when
by Sharon Black — The swing-seat is shaded / by hanging rhododendrons / whose leaves and flowers ...
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Flashes of brightwork
Victoria Moul reviews Something, I Forget by Angela Leighton (Carcanet, 2023)
Everything so insistently next to everything else
Helena Nelson mind-maps Absence by Ali Lewis (Cheerio, 2024)
Tammy Wynette
by Dane Holt — The only records found in my grandmother’s attic / were by scorned women for scorned women / written by men ...
In Conversation with Ryan Van Winkle
We talk to Ryan Van Winkle, the new Artistic Director for StAnza
Medieval Pattern Poems of Rabanus Maurus
Sam Dolbear and Adam Green look at some 9th century examples of "pattern poetry"
All the bridges are down
Carl Tomlinson reviews Between A Drowning Man by Martyn Crucefix (Salt, 2023)
Castaway Companions
Sarah Leavesley chooses poems by Matthew Arnold, Jacques Prévert and Lorine Niedecker
This ritual of witness and professionalism
D.A. Prince reviews The Sessions by Jonathan Totman (Pindrop Press, 2023)
The man will carry this void
Rory Waterman reviews Missing Person by Nicholas Hogg (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)
We have an opportunity to listen
Maggie Mackay reviews High Nowhere by Jean Atkin (Indigo Dreams, 2023)
The Leeds Mummy abandons his chariot
Tim Murphy reviews A to Z of Superstitions by Ian Harker (Yaffle Press, 2023)