Blown like glass into brittle intricacies
Hilary Menos reviews Slide by Mark Pajak (Cape, 2022)
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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)
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)