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And blue things

Helena Nelson and Hilary Menos discuss With My Back to the World by Victoria Chang (Corsair, 2024)

Continue readingAnd blue things
Engraving of Phillis Wheatley, a black woman wearing a bonnet and holding a quill pen.

An 18th-Century Genius in Bondage

Vincent Carretta takes a look at the remarkable life of Phillis Wheatley

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Black and white photograph of Katherine

Looking for something, something, something

Castaway poet Katherine Towers chooses poems by Wallace Stevens, Alice Oswald and Elizabeth Bishop

Continue readingLooking for something, something, something
A fancy proscenium arch on a stage in gold and red. Underneath on the stage are a man and a woman in Arabic dress.

Poetry for the people

Bruno Cooke investigates Million's Poet, a reality television show in the UAE

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The Manuscripts of Emily Dickinson

Mike Kelly explores highlights from the Amherst College Emily Dickinson collection

Continue readingThe Manuscripts of Emily Dickinson
Seven women sitting on a sofa.

The complete story

Nadia Kabir Barb gives us The Whole Kahani, a collective of British fiction writers of South Asian origin

Continue readingThe complete story
Photos of Nell and Hilary. Both looking studious.

Five Forward poems under the microscope

Helena Nelson and Hilary Menos discuss the five poems shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (Written)

Continue readingFive Forward poems under the microscope
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The hairier I am, the sexier I feel

Bruno Cooke ranks the five poems shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize for Best Single Poem – Performed 2024

Continue readingThe hairier I am, the sexier I feel
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Reminiscing and joking and putting the world to rights

Bruno Cooke talks to Georgie Jones, the poet who found success via Instagram and TikTok

Continue readingReminiscing and joking and putting the world to rights
Quote on the poem page. "If then the teeth, designed for various use, Decay and ache, 'tis only from abuse; And lo, triumphant art can well ensure, At least a remedy, if not cure.

Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth (1833)

Hunter Dukes on an eighty page poem by 'The Poet Laureate of Dentistry'

Continue readingDentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth (1833)
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Making sense of an often-meaningless world

Bruno Cooke talks to Darby Hudson, the bearded Australian poet in the cuddly jumper

Continue readingMaking sense of an often-meaningless world
Photograph of Katrina walking on a beach wearing a round black hat. (photo Joe Grabham).

Evoking the Natural World

Rowan Bell talks to Katrina Porteous about the power of dialect words, plagiarism, and writing for radio

Continue readingEvoking the Natural World
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