Thank you to all who joined us to celebrate the publication of the 2018 summer issue of Poetry London, with one of America’s greatest living poets, Alice Notley, in a …
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 …
Island Home for Isabelle Huppert (La Truite) Extract by Geraldine Clarkson
After Angela Dufresne World’s in love with Isabelle. Where Isabelle goes. What Isabelle knows. Isabelle’s ideal’s to live alone in green: plumped-up on an apple-bottomed sea, or pear – ooh …
The Tempest by Isobel Dixon
After Sarah Pickstone’s painting The Tempest Don’t we all want a green and pure ferocity, the lashing rain to make us naked to ourselves. Thwarted, aslant against our lives, lean …
Poems in response to paintings by Vera Iliatova by Rachael Allen
All titles are taken from Vera’s paintings Lunatic Urbaine The man who loved me pushed me to the ground in a pool of white plants. When we tell you to …
Curating Slatterns: painting, poetry and the female gaze by Kathryn Maris
I: Portrait of a girl with a Frank O’Hara complex I think I would rather be a painter, but I am not. – Frank O’Hara I never wanted to be …
Saruk Mohajeran by Mark Waldron
Did you not know it was me, when you knelt down to pick up your glove, that it was me in the bristly touch of the carpet? I’d had a …
Creating the Memory Collage by Alice Notley
Because I was mourning Doug so hard but push out onto page Alma, or The Dead Women I couldn’t then react too to 9/11 and I have placed it where …
Poetry London announces new Reviews and Associate Editor
Poetry London is delighted to announce that Dai George and Martha Sprackland are joining the magazine’s editorial team. Dai George will be the Reviews Editor, while Martha Sprackland will be …
I See You Seeing Me: Engaging the Female Gaze in Visual Art and Poetry. Event: 16 June 2018
View the full programme. The 1970s gave rise to ground breaking critical work on the male gaze, with thinkers such as Laura Mulvey and John Berger interrogating the phallocentric look—the …
Drinks with Dead Poets – 25 March 2018
It’s the autumn term: tutoring students in poetry in a mysterious village, Glyn’s world is transformed by the arrival of Keats in a country lane; Emily Dickinson and other poets …
Milk by Emma Jeremy
It was easy not to like him, because of the milk. It bled from every pore of him, thousands of tiny waterfalls of milk. Milk-falls. You would think that he …
The Detectives by Jane Yeh
No matter where we go, it always looks like California. Get in the car and drive. Our invisible friend Comes with us everywhere, like a shadow. He tells us how …
Skylight by Natalie Shapero
YOU DESERVE IT was what she said when I called a cab at 10 p.m. instead of hopping the 89 bus, which lets off six blocks from my place – …