Poems for Ukraine 08/04/22
'Safety Advice' by Erica Hesketh and
'The Song of Siskin' by Mark Russell
Archive
Poetry: a lockdown journey
Sophie Buchaillard talks about the Writers on Reading podcast, how poetry can be a real conversation between writer and reader, and about the future of Welsh poetry
Three pamphlets: Martin Figura, Leontia Flynn and Naush Sabah
Khadija Rouf reviews My Name is Mercy by Martin Figura (Fair Acre, 2021), Hilary Menos reviews Nina Simone is Singing by Leontia Flynn (Mariscat Press, 2021), and Mat Riches reviews Litanies by Naush Sabah (Guillemot, 2021)
Wind-up people
by Jacqueline Schaalje — Coffee and cakes comforted us that morning. / The seam of her knickers rolled out / like spilt milk so I did some mending. / Stay for lunch, my mother said, but I left, / satisfied her clock was ticking
Poems for Ukraine 01/04/22
'Under the Rubble' by Scott Elder
'Primary Colours — Twickenham Early Morning'
by Simon Rees-Roberts
I’m enjoying the anonymity while it lasts
We talk to the Poet Laureate of Twitter, Brian Bilston, about pressure to publish, how writing about politics can be a form of therapy, and why he's writing love poems now
Prizes prised from the perished
Bruno Cooke reviews Please Do Not Touch by Casey Bailey (Burning Eye, 2021)
Lost at the Western General
by Kate Hendry — It only happened once, at night – / the ward we needed wasn’t listed // on any signs and there was no one / in the Covid-empty corridors to ask. // Finally, I recognised the stairs / I’d descended
Poems for Ukraine 25/03/22
'March Madness' by Matt Witt
'Desert Island War Poems' by Roy Marshall
Poems for Ukraine 17/03/22
In the Slips by Pratibha Castle
The Innkeeper of Kyiv by Christopher James
This is the naming of trees / this is a series of flames / this is watching you all disappear
Clare Best reviews All the Men I Never Married by Kim Moore (Seren, 2021)