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And blue things

Feature: Helena Nelson and Hilary Menos discuss the recent Best Forward Prize-winning collection With My Back to the World by Victoria Chang (Corsair, 2024)

An 18th-Century Genius in Bondage

Feature: Vincent Carretta takes a look at the remarkable life of Phillis Wheatley, the first ever African-American woman to be published.

Looking for something, something, something

Feature: Castaway poet Kathy Towers chooses poems by Wallace Stevens, Alice Oswald and Elizabeth Bishop

Poetry for the people

Feature: Bruno Cooke looks at poetry sales, here and abroad, and investigates Million's Poet, a reality television show in the United Arab Emirates

The Manuscripts of Emily Dickinson

Feature: Mike Kelly explores highlights from the Amherst College Emily Dickinson collection

The complete story

Feature: Nadia Kabir Barb gives us The Whole Kahani

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

The hairier I am, the sexier I feel

Feature: Bruno Cooke ranks the five poems on the shortlist for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Performed 2024

Reminiscing and joking and putting the world to rights

Feature: Bruno Cooke talks to Georgie Jones, the poet who found success by posting her work on Instagram and TikTok

Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth (1833)

Feature: Hunter Dukes on 'Dentologia', an eighty page poem written in 1833 explaining the diseases and treatment of the teeth by Dr. Solyman Brown

Making sense of an often-meaningless world

Feature: Bruno Cooke talks to Darby Hudson, the bearded Australian poet in the cuddly jumper

Evoking the Natural World

Feature: Rowan Bell talks to Katrina Porteous about the power of dialect words
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