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

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

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

Bruno Cooke investigates Million's Poet, a reality television show in the UAE with massive cash prizes

Mike Kelly explores highlights from the Amherst College Emily Dickinson collection

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

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

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

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

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

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

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