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Photograph of a wartime Pillbox bunker on a beach.

Hunker

Following on from Steven Lovatt's evisceration of 'heft' and Chris Edgoose's denunciation of 'palimpsest', Jane Routh takes on ‘hunker'

Photo by Mathias Reding

Photo of John Glenday sitting outside in front of a bridge. He is wearing a blue shirt and has a short grey beard and greying hair.

We can never be passengers any more

Alan Buckley gives us his close reading of the poem 'The Walkers' by John Glenday

Black and white portrait photograph of Roger Elkin somehow looking both serious and impish.

The Right Questions

Will Daunt looks at the work of Roger Elkin and the critical relevance of his latest project The F Word

A round yellow ball with two eyes and a big smile.

This barter of enthusiasm 3

Mike Barlow, Helena Nelson and Martin Figura choose favourite funny-serious poems by e. e. cummings, Mark Halliday and Peter Howard

Smiley yellow ball photograph by Chaitanya Pillala on Unsplash

Ink stencil style picture of a cat (the Mariscat cat) on a cream watercolour background.

Vivat Mariscat

The Friday Poem talks to Hamish Whyte of Mariscat Press about current Scottish Galvanisers, the timidity of contemporary review culture, and to blurb or not to blurb

Head and shoulders photo of Rachael. She has short brown hair and glasses. She has her baby daughter in a sling across her chest.

Castaway Companions

Castaway poet Rachael Matthews choses poems by Jennifer L Knox, Adrienne Rich, and Kathleen Jamie for her desert island stay

Paul Muldoon standing in front of a grey wall looking 'ard. He has grey curly hair and glasses, and he is wearing a brown tweed jacket and tie and a dark shirt.

With a pink and a pink and a pinkie-pick

Unpack a Poem: Steven Lovatt on 'The Loaf' by Paul Muldoon

Black and white photograph of Sylvia Plath looking directly at the camera. There are bookshelves in the background. It can't be that warm because she's wearing a woolly cardigan with a plaid trim under the buttons.

Hooks and Visions: Sylvia Plath and Me

Poet Sarah Corbett takes a break from her role as producer and director of the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival to talk about what first drew her to Plath's work