Ah, bostid is the golden bowel!
Steven Lovatt on dialect poetry
Steven Lovatt
Monsoon night-song
Steven Lovatt reviews Mother of Flip-Flops by Mukahang Limbu (Out-Spoken Press, 2022)
The wonders this lens can do!
Steven Lovatt reviews Ferenc Juhász: Selected Poems translated by David Wevill (Shearsman, 2022)
With a pink and a pink and a pinkie-pick
Unpack a Poem: Steven Lovatt on 'The Loaf' by Paul Muldoon
Strung like an archer’s bow
Steven Lovatt reviews Unexhausted Time by Emily Berry (Faber, 2022)
Dealing in shards
Steven Lovatt reviews Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia (Granta, 2021)
What does Steven Lovatt say?
How did I get into poetry? Externally, having librarians for parents helped. Temperamentally it’s more complicated ...
Three pamphlets: Matthew Hollis, Holly Singlehurst and Gboyega Odubanjo
Steven Lovatt reviews Leaves by Matthew Hollis, Mat Riches reviews The Sea Turned Thick as Honey by Holly Singlehurst, and Hilary Menos reviews Aunty Uncle Poems by Gboyega Odubanjo
I’d found a home
Steven Lovatt on reading poetry in translation, discovering Czesław Miłosz’s anthology Post-War Polish Poets, and the style and sensibility of Zbigniew Herbert
Like a bride with a posy of stout
Steven Lovatt reviews Cheryl’s Destinies by Stephen Sexton (Penguin, 2021)
Distracted by eyelashes
Steven Lovatt reviews Men Who Feed Pigeons by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe, 2021)
Heft
In the first of our occasional series on words that have editors reaching for the red pen, Steven Lovatt eviscerates ‘heft’