Now the warring is over the ritual begins, and those men we’ve come to know in blood and barbarism return again to the heart’s work of tending to its love, …
Poetry London Clore Prize 2018 COMMENDED 3: A Rumble In Vina del Mar by Jenny McCartney
In Vina del Mar In the swirl of traffic by the sea Everything feels skew-whiff Stiff with salt and gasoline Men mend cars by the side of the road Like …
Poetry London Clore Prize 2018 COMMENDED 2: Tiger Gran by Pascale Petit
My grandmother of the flying electric blanket, who speaks Hindi in her sleep, who has gharials in her black eyes behind steamed-up glasses, a long nose like a mountain between …
Poetry London Clore Prize 2018 COMMENDED 1: Under London by Victor Tapner
Joseph Bazalgette, Victorian civil engineer and builder of the city’s sewer network As the lid closes on Hammersmith Road, muffling the crunch of brewers’ carts, stifling shouts from laundry windows, …
The Condition of Intimacy by Jess Cotton in conversation with Ariana Reines
When I first read Ariana Reines’s third collection Mercury in 2011, I was blown away by the distinctiveness of her poetic voice and by the honesty of the writing. With …
Wildly Unmothered by Daisy Lafarge
Dear Rachel, I hope this finds you well and you don’t mind my getting in touch. We met briefly in February in Tucson – I was visiting with my partner …
Poetry London Clore Prize 2018 THIRD PRIZE: Heaven by Selima Hill
We take a yellow cabbage to the hens then carry on downhill to the boats, my uncle in his little crumpled hat, me in shorts, half-hidden in the hair my …
Poetry London Clore Prize 2018 SECOND PRIZE: Children of the Revolution by S K Kim
for my cousins First the meat disappeared from our rations, then the rice, then the barley and millet, then the rations vanished. _____ We caught croakers, cuttlefish, hauled creels of …
Poetry London Clore Prize 2018 FIRST PRIZE: Names by Romalyn Ante
‘We are nameless and all names are ours.’ – Emmanuel Lacaba My mother’s name is Rosana, but when she left, I had other mothers. Rowena, Jimboy, Alma. I was named …
An Epidemic of the Heart by A K Blakemore
Three seductive, political first collections Richard Scott Soho Faber £10.99 Abigail Parry Jinx Bloodaxe £9.95 Leah Umansky The Barbarous Century Eyewear £10.99 Sometimes when I feel like punishing myself I …
The mother dream by Rebecca Perry
Daughter, the door is open. For once leave the raincloud outside. Learn how to get along with offal for the sake of your iron levels. Squeamishness will get you nowhere …
Motörhead Expression 0.1.06 – by Robert Herbert McClean
I trust I no longer, I change too quickly, I refute, I refute I change too quickly, I clamber, always alone, scrambling frost on height of longing, I despise my …
Cakewalk by Jericho Brown
My man swears his HIV is better than mine, that his has in it a little gold, something he can spend if he ever gets old, claims mine is full …
Pivot by Andrea Brady
The light that pivots away from us at your point in this year makes you gorgeous and sleep and always returns to you, through the ellipse coloured red for winter. …
Poetry London Mentoring Scheme
Poetry London is pleased to announce the second year of its mentoring scheme, offering the chance for three talented poets to receive 1 year of free one-to-one mentoring from leading …
Poetry London Summer 2018 Readings: 21 June at Kings Place
Watch readings from the Summer 2018 launch by Rebecca Tamás and Dom Bury Thank you to all who joined us to celebrate the publication of the 2018 summer issue of …
A Kind of Masquerade: Kayo Chingonyi talks to Emily Hasler
EH: I thought I’d start by asking you about your work since Kumukanda appeared and how you see it in relation to the collection? KC: There are several poems that, …
An ‘I’ For An ‘I’: the vanishing self in lyric poetry by Chrissy Williams
Sophie Collins Who is Mary Sue? Faber £10.99 Oli Hazzard Blotter Carcanet £9.99 Sophie Collins’s début collection Who is Mary Sue? assembles many different types of text – poetry (both …
Thank You for Your Honesty by Sophie Collins
A response to digital prints, animations and texts by Niamh Riordan 1) To disturb reality using its own means and not a subjective interpretation thereof presenting the viewer with an …