A lesson for all
Rowan Bell on Ukrainian-American graphic artist Paul Peter Piech and his bold illustrations of poetry
Features
We are always saying goodbye
Castaway Martyn Crucefix chooses poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edward Thomas and Rainer Maria Rilke to take to his desert island
The Censored Women of Les Fleurs du Mal
Pedro Baños Gallego on the 'forbidden' poems in Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal
Untitled
The Frip looks at how to find the right title for your poem (or at least not the wrong one)
The Joy of Cycling
Our Spoken Word Editor Bruno Cooke is off round the world on two wheels. He considers the joy of cycling, in poetry.
Unicorn flavour
We talk to Aaron Kent, poet, editor, and publisher of Broken Sleep Books
What do our new regular reviewers say?
Our new reviewers to tell us what they think about poetry and reviewing
How Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood
Scott Peeples on the weary-but-wise image of Edgar Allan Poe
This barter of enthusiasm 7
Stephen Payne, Clare Best ands Jeremy Wikeley choose poems by Geoffrey Brock, Mark Doty and W.H. Auden
On Trying To Notice Joy
Polly Atkin on her love of tea, Teaism, and what Leila Chatti's poem 'Tea' means to her
punk ballet. Act 1. / there is more to come
Bruno Cooke profiles Bristol-based poet, writer, performer, and slam champion, Vanessa Kisuule
Photograph of Vanessa Kisuule by Jon Aitken
Picasso, ici, je te vois, et je te nomme
Rowan Bell on the relationship between artist Picasso and poet Paul Éluard