We commissioned a series of responses to the republication of Kate Clanchy’s memoir, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, as well as the issues revealed by its …
Clanchy Responses: On Duties of Care by Stephanie Sy-Quia
We commissioned a series of responses to the republication of Kate Clanchy’s memoir, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, as well as the issues revealed by its …
“Mixing Memory and Desire”: Collecting the centenary in poetry by Sammy Jay
The year 1922 was ushered in with a megaphone. On 24 January, Edith Sitwell held the private debut of Façade, her modernist poem, with avant-garde musical accompaniments by the little-known …
Averse Miscellany: Let There Be Bad Poetry!, by Camille Ralphs
In her third instalment of her exclusive column for Poetry London, Camille Ralphs takes a riotously funny look at a ninety-year-old compendium of bad poetry and considers what separates ‘bad …
On Feeling and Rancour (or What Makes Us So Sure We’re Right About Poetry?)
by Jon Stone An odd thing: whenever I see or hear the words ‘my father’ in a poem, I almost immediately tune out. It’s like a deactivation switch. Sometimes I …
Averse Miscellany: The New Poetry, Part 2 of 2, by Camille Ralphs
Literary canons are fickle beasts and in this exciting new column for Poetry London, Camille Ralphs asks whether some of these ejections have been just, and what the poets themselves …
(Good) Person Poems, by Rory Waterman
Rory Waterman offers a stirring op-ed on the negative effects of superficial do-goodery and inadvertent self-flattery on contemporary poetry and how such tendencies often simplify moral and intellectual complexities to …
Averse Miscellany: The New Poetry, Part 1 of 2, by Camille Ralphs
Camille Ralphs Literary canons are fickle beasts and in this exciting new column for Poetry London, Camille Ralphs asks whether some ejections from the English-speaking canon have been just, and …
