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Summer 2025 • Issue 111
Our Summer 2025 issue includes new poems by Carl Phillips, Mona Arshi, Clare Pollard, David Constantine, and Sean O’Brien. The issue also includes prose from Jacob Polley and Will Harris, and reviews of Amy De’Ath, Ella Frears, Dzifa Benson and Ruth Padel, and more.
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Category: Reviews
They Were Here
Thembe Mvula
Dzifa Benson’s debut collection Monster is inspired by the life of Sarah ‘Saartjie’ Baartman – a South African Khoekhoe woman who was brought to England in 1810 and displayed in freakshows across Europe for her large buttocks. Our knowledge of [...] -
Category: Interviews
Between the Seen and the Unseen: a pas de deux
Isabelle Baafi
Oluwaseun Olayiwola is a poet, critic, choreographer, and performer based in London. His poems have been published and anthologised in the Guardian, The Poetry Review, PN Review, Oxford Poetry, Tate, bath magg, fourteen poems, Re·creation: A Queer Poetry Anthology (2021), and Queerlings. As a Ledbury Poetry Critic, he has written reviews for the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry London, the Poetry School, Magma, Poetry Birmingham, and the Poetry Book Society. Shortly before the release of his debut collection, Strange Beach – published in January 2025 by Fitzcarraldo (UK) and Soft Skull (US) – reviews editor Isabelle Baafi interviewed him about his depictions of landscape and the body, which interrogate notions of time, identity, and connection.
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After taking a break last year as we took Poetry London on tour around the UK to celebrate the publication of PL’s 100th issue, we’re happy to be back with the second episode of the Poetry London Podcast. This episode features readings by poets Chris McCabe, Romalyn Ante, and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.