Sing a Song of Sixpence
Poet and financial journalist Emma Simon picks six poems about money
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Crash the force shield of this screen
Emma Simon reviews The Kingdom by Jane Draycott (Carcanet, 2022)
SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP FOX SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP
Emma Simon reviews What the sheep taught me by Mary Mulholland (Live Canon, 2022)
Ready to catch light
Emma Simon reviews the small manoeuvres by Kathy Pimlott (Verve, 2022)
Three Live Canon winners
Emma Simon reviews pamphlets by Aileen La Tourette, Elena Croitoru and Mehmet Izbudak, winners of the Live Canon Pamphlet Competition 2021
What does Emma Simon say?
I got into poetry at school. I remember one hot sweaty day my English teacher saying that kind of weather always made her think of murder ...
Poems of witness
Emma Simon reviews The Underlook by Helen Seymour (Smith|Doorstop, 2021) and The Thoughts by Sarah Barnsley (Smith|Doorstop, 2021)
We have never seen worse
Emma Simon asks poets about good rejections, bad rejections, and rejections that leave you hanging on forever
Three pamphlets: Richie McCaffery, Phoebe Stuckes and Julia Bird
Mat Riches reviews Coping Stones by Richie McCaffery, Emma Simon reviews The One Girl Gremlin by Phoebe Stuckes and Hilary Menos reviews is, thinks Pearl by Julia Bird
Hearts pressed with aspic
Emma Simon reviews Field Requiem by Sheri Benning (Carcanet, 2021)
A man was shot not far from where we live
Emma Simon reviews Little Piece of Harm by Chris Jones (Longbarrow, 2020)