Poetry London is seeking a new part-time Digital Editor. The person appointed to the role of Digital Editor will work closely with the Poetry Editor, Co-editor and Reviews Editor to …
The Bad Guy – Riad Saleh Hussein
to Sylvia Plath And I remember that the blue woman, when she had seen me weeping corpses and the poor, Said: your two eyes are mirrors …
Mania of Aggregation: Sam Riviere on Ed Atkins’s malignant poetics
Ed Atkins A Primer for Cadavers Fitzcarraldo £12.99 Ed Atkins is known as an artist, not at all as a poet, so he’s not an obvious candidate for the review …
Poetry as Artifact and Historical Testimony: Malika Booker on an emancipating new lyric
Olio Tyehimba Jess Wave $25 Tyehimba Jess’s second collection Olio is a beautiful rendering of minstrel performers post-slavery. Jess and Wave Books have deliberately cultivated a coffee-table art book effect …
Fake News
Scandinavian folklore has made us familiar with a particular form of monster. Unlike the beast-humans in Grimm or classical mythology, a troll can scarcely be distinguished in appearance from an …
Poetry London Summer 2017 Readings – Wednesday 7 June
Join us to celebrate the publication of the 2017 summer issue of Poetry London – offering the opportunity to hear some of the magazine’s most distinguished contributors reading their poems. …
Poetry London Mentoring Scheme
Poetry London is excited to announce the successful poets chosen to take part in our inaugural poetry mentoring scheme, generously funded by The Fenton Arts Trust and Arts Council England. …
Free running
A student at the Poetry School (whose day job is as a magazine journalist) recently remarked to me that her interest in poetry came from it being a form of …
The Hatred of Lerner: Caleb Klaces on his struggle with Ben Lerner’s poetics
Ben Lerner The Hatred of Poetry Fitzcarraldo, £9.99 My two-year-old daughter has a frustrating habit of asking for orange juice, then objecting to every way she might drink it. The juice …
No Need For Permission: Tom Pickard talks to Chris McCabe about poetry and political activism
Tom Pickard meets me at Maryport Station, Cumbria, and drives me back to his home, an old weathered terrace on a street between two pubs. On the wall behind us …
Many Bird Roast
I came in, dandy and present arguing for a moratorium on meat of the kind splayed out on the table, legs akimbo like a fallen-over ice skater skidding on her …
Kissing Edwin Morgan
seems uncanny because he is gay and I am straight and because the day is especially cold. A hungry kisser, kissing him brings out the hive that is him. A …
john
i do not know my grandfather, who is a famous photographer who works primarily in black and white. although i know he is not a large man, i think of …
Poetry London Spring 2017 Readings – Thursday 9 February
Poetry London launches its Spring 2017 issue with readings from Roddy Lumsden, Rebecca Perry, A K Blakemore and Robert Herbert McClean. The evening will be hosted by the magazine’s Poetry Editor, …
A new empathy
In Poésie et photographie – perhaps his last major essay before his death in July this year – Yves Bonnefoy turned to explore ‘the impact of the first photographs on …
Rooting for Language: Matthew and Michael Dickman talk to Chrissy Williams on the publication of Brother
CW: You’re in the UK to promote Brother, which Faber have published with two covers, front and back. The reader must pick one, read into the middle, then turn the …
Pushing Through to Redemption: Dai George finds poets exceeding the expectations they create
Luke Kennard Cain Penned in the Margins £12.99 Helen Mort No Map Could Show Them Chatto £10.00 In 2006 Luke Kennard held a funeral for irony. Commemorated in ‘A Sure-Fire …