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Lunar valleys in my mind

Feature: Is Taylor Swift a 'tortured poet'? Bruno Cooke listens to her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department

Poetry on social media: riding the wave

Feature: Bruno Cooke looks at three poets who exemplify the shift in what it means to successfully integrate social media into one’s poetic method

Castaway Companions

Castaway Companions: Helen Evans chooses poems she has already memorised by Mary Oliver, William Stafford and Marie Howe, adds three more from Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Kathryn Maris and Rebecca Elson

The air is full of love

Feature: Bruno Cooke attends – and participates in – a Lyrical Lunacy poetry open mic night in The Fig Lobby, Bangkok, Thailand

In Conversation with Ryan Van Winkle

In Conversation: Ryan Van Winkle is the new Artistic Director for StAnza. Hilary Menos talked to him about what the future holds for the festival

Medieval Pattern Poems of Rabanus Maurus

Feature: Medieval Pattern Poems of Rabanus Maurus

Castaway Companions

Castaway Companions: Sarah Leavesley takes poems by Matthew Arnold, William Blake, Jacques Prévert, and Lorine Niedecker to take to her desert island

Staring an instant out of the dark

Feature: Cliff Yates treats us to a tour of his poetry bookshelf

‘Next time you dive’ (or How to play a poem)

Feature: Jon Stone on what we need to do to broaden the readership of poetry

Castaway Companions

Castaway Companions: Jill Abram chooses poems by Edward Lear, Lemn Sissay and Jacqueline Saphra to take to her desert island

Uncomfortable Bedfellows – Criminal Psychology and Writing Poetry

Feature: Uncomfortable Bedfellows – Zoe Walkington on Criminal Psychology and Writing Poetry

Are Poetry Reviews Pointless?

Feature / Book Review: Is it possible to review poetry in a more imaginative way? Inspired by Jon Stone’s Poems Are Toys, Helena Nelson reports on Shapeshifting for Beginners by Emma Simon (Salt, 2023)
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