The page my barrow and my charge the word
Book Review: Stephen Payne reviews The Resurrectionists by John Challis (Bloodaxe, 2021)
Archive
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
Looking for the ones who will never be found
Hilary Menos reviews Lyonesse by Penny Shuttle (Bloodaxe, 2021)
Down Time
by Chris Jones — You used to joke you were a champion sleeper / a heavyweight, the kind who’d knuckle down / to eight hour shifts without so much as a peep; / reel wide-screen dreams before you drifted round
The Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2020
Maggie Mackay considers pamphlets by the winner, runner up and shortlisted poets, and looks at what they have done since
My general approach is to question the norm
In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Les Robinson about finding new poets, writing blurbs, and the usefulness (or not) of poetry reviews
The February Museum: recent acquisitions
by Jane Routh — Fraxinus excelsior 18” square-cut deadwood log / with egg galleries of Hylesinus varius // Retrieved from the log pile, a long block / inscribed with life cycles:
Today I see eternity everywhere
Clare Best reviews Time by Etel Adnan, translated from the French by Sarah Riggs (Nightboat Books, New York, 2019)
‘I did my one little verse and the place just went nuts’
Bruno Cooke traces the development of Kae Tempest
The Unicyclist of Benghazi
by Christopher James — Like a cricket balanced on a 1 piastre piece, / my father spun through city streets. / Make a friend of the horizon, he’d tell me. / Remember, we already know how to / ride the single wheel
It’s written and can’t be amended, this book
Charlotte Gann reviews The Long Habit of Living by M.R. Peacocke (HappenStance, 2021)