The year I was lost in the core of a star
Hilary Menos reviews Ovarium by Joanna Ingham (Emma Press, 2022)
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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
When you are being eaten by vultures they will leave your face alone
Hilary Menos reviews Jongleur by Rennie Parker (Shoestring, 2021)
Go long
Hilary Menos reviews Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard (Penned in the Margins, 2021), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021
Three pamphlets: Richie McCaffery, Phoebe Stuckes and Julia Bird
Mat Riches reviews Coping Stones by Richie McCaffery, Emma Simon reviews The One Girl Gremlin by Phoebe Stuckes and Hilary Menos reviews is, thinks Pearl by Julia Bird
Punk Poetry – bitten the dust or alive and well?
Hilary Menos looks back at the poets who embodied the spirit of punk in the 1970s and 80s and asks where are the punk poets of today?