The Frip

Ah, bostid is the golden bowel!
Steven Lovatt on dialect poetry

A tinderbox to light all the world’s wanting
Rachael Matthews reviews The Home Child by Liz Berry (Chatto & Windus, 2023)

To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life
Sarah Mnatzaganian gives us a tour of her poetry bookshelf

Learning to read with Mallarmé, the most obscure of all poets
Bertrand Marchal discusses why Mallarmé wanted to make poetry so difficult for readers to understand

No one wears Brooches anymore
Hilary Menos reviews Savage Tales by Tara Bergin (Carcanet, 2022

What are poets really after?
Helena Nelson considers the pros and cons of the ‘after’ epigraph, poetry’s exclusive codes, and the necessary art of bluffing

To hear their voice bounce off the shape of things
Rory Waterman reviews This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings (Carcanet, 2022)

How else were you to mend lineage?
Isabelle Thompson reviews Ixora by Prerana Kumar (Guillemot Press, 2023)

There’s space for all of us
We talk to Di Slaney of Candlestick Press about about publishing poetry that appeals to non-poets, whether poetry should be able to pay for itself, and the joy of wonky animals

A basic beginning in tegnsprog
Carl Tomlinson reviews The House of the Interpreter by Lisa Kelly (Carcanet, 2023)

Our version of the sea not quite knowing how to touch the land
Mat Riches reviews Landsick by Genevieve Carver (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)