New Frip
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An guish / rather than a guish
Tim Murphy reviews 54 Poems: Selected and New by John Levy (Shearsman Books, 2023)
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A salve to strengthen heart and happiness
We talk to Deb Alma, poet, teacher, editor, and founder of the Poetry Pharmacy
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Holding on against the ebb
Christopher James reviews Whatever You Do, Just Don’t by Matthew Stewart (HappenStance, 2023)
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Mixed feelings about gravity
Isabelle Thompson reviews three new pamphlets from ignitionpress
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You are not a fixed star in anybody’s sky
Khadija Rouf reviews Into the Same Sound Twice by Zakia Carpenter-Hall (Seren, 2023)
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Writing this warring world
Jeremy Wikeley reviews Vevel’s Violin by Jacqueline Saphra (Nine Arches Press, 2023)
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Time to swim
Richie McCaffery reviews Hard Drive by Paul Stephenson (Carcanet, 2023)
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Danger leaps from off the page
Annie Fisher looks at some of the best new poetry collections for children
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Nine tradesmen and a beaver
Edward Wakeling introduces 'The Hunting of the Snark' by Lewis Carroll
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Castaway Companions
Castaway Poet Roy Marshall chooses poems by David Jones, Paul Batchelor and John Donne
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But is it art?
Rowan Bell on the art of Tracey Emin and the poetry of Billy Childish
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The story of herself
Hilary Menos reviews nine by David Harsent (Guillemot Press, 2023)