And blue things
Helena Nelson and Hilary Menos discuss With My Back to the World by Victoria Chang (Corsair, 2024)
Hilary Menos
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)
Oh tears and blood
Hilary Menos reviews The Snow Globe by Jenny Pagdin (Nine Arches, 2024)
The little Englands of my grief
Hilary Menos reviews Contraflow: Lines of Englishness 1922–2022, selected by John Greening & Kevin Gardner (Renard, 2023)
The Heavyweight Champion of the World
Hilary Menos reviews Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire by Dane Holt (The Lifeboat, 2023)
The story of herself
Hilary Menos reviews nine by David Harsent (Guillemot Press, 2023)
No one wears Brooches anymore
Hilary Menos reviews Savage Tales by Tara Bergin (Carcanet, 2022
Blown like glass into brittle intricacies
Hilary Menos reviews Slide by Mark Pajak (Cape, 2022)
Choose a poem, learn it by heart, share it out loud
Julie Blake, co-founder of Poetry By Heart, talks about the benefits of learning poetry, the joys of performance, and the Poetry By Heart national poetry speaking competition
Photos by Sam Strickland
The difficult visiting times
Philip Gross discusses writing poetry about his family in The Wasting Game and Deep Field, the importance of self-knowledge, and what makes a 'good' poem
Schist and quartz and sparks of mica
Hilary Menos reviews The Red House by Sharon Black (Drunk Muse Press, 2022)
A soft labyrinth of signals
Hilary Menos reviews The Grass Boat by Imogen Forster (Mariscat, 2021)