The Frip
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O linger Sapphos of the lash-line!
Alan Buckley reviews PLUS ULTRA by Sarah Fletcher (CHEERIO, 2023)
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The hairier I am, the sexier I feel
Bruno Cooke ranks the five poems shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize for Best Single Poem – Performed 2024
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I with my mother became we
Maggie Mackay reviews Grief’s Alphabet by Carrie Etter (Seren, 2024)
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The strong verbs
Helena Nelson reviews Camera Obscura by Philip Rush (Garlic Press, 2023)
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That day when we can watch it fall
Steven Lovatt reviews Joe Hill Makes His Way into the Castle by Katy Evans-Bush (CB Editions, 2024)
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Reminiscing and joking and putting the world to rights
Bruno Cooke talks to Georgie Jones, the poet who found success via Instagram and TikTok
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Dunna wittle, it’ll be reet
Isabelle Thompson reviews Ostriches: Ten Poems about My Dad by Jeanette Burton (Candlestick Press, 2024)
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In the ‘quiet coach’
Annie Fisher reviews Surprising the Misses McRuvie by Eleanor Livingstone (Red Squirrel Press, 2023)
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There now
D. A. Prince reviews This is You, Dear Stranger by Paula Jennings (Red Squirrel Press, 2024)
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Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth (1833)
Hunter Dukes on an eighty page poem by 'The Poet Laureate of Dentistry'