Hilary Menos

Hope is a thing with 1. Fur 2. Down 3. Feathers 4. An exoskeleton

Hilary Menos reviews I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson’s Boyfriend by Ron Koertge (Red Hen Press, 2022)

Letting the shadow out of the box

Hilary Menos reviews Turn Up the Ocean by Tony Hoagland (Bloodaxe, 2022)

The year I was lost in the core of a star

Hilary Menos reviews Ovarium by Joanna Ingham (Emma Press, 2022)

Ce n’est pas une métaphore

Hilary Menos reviews Our Lady of Tyres / Notre dame des pneus by Claire Trévien, translated from English to French by Marie Lando (Broken Sleep Books, 2022)

Like worms on the corruption in which they are bred

Hilary Menos reviews The Poets’ Guide to Economics by John Ramsden (Pallas Athene, 2022)

After the first phase, after the great fall

In the first of a new series of close readings, Hilary Menos unpacks the poem ‘Incredible’ by Simon Armitage

A gorgeous fluorescent yes

Hilary Menos reviews Ephemeron by Fiona Benson (Cape, 2022)

I could have been betterer. Et-fucking-cetera

Hilary Menos reviews Miracle Theatre’s Everyman, adapted by Carol Ann Duffy, at the Princess Pavillion, Falmouth

What does Hilary Menos say?

I like poetry that keeps the lid on AND lets the pig out ...

Three pamphlets: Sarah Mnatzaganian, Judi Sutherland and Hugo Williams

Matthew Paul reviews Lemonade in the Armenian Quarter by Sarah Mnatzaganian, Maggie Mackay reviews Following Teisa by Judi Sutherland and Hilary Menos reviews Badlands by Hugo Williams