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CompetitionCategory: InterviewsPL: Firstly, huge congratulations on winning 1st prize in this year’s competition! Ilya was extremely impressed by the quality of the entries, so this is a great achievement. Can you tell us a little about when and why you wrote [...]
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CompetitionCategory: InterviewsPoetry London: Many congratulations on winning 3rd prize in this year’s competition! Can you tell us a little about when and why you wrote this poem, and why you felt it was the right one to submit to the prize? [...]
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CompetitionCategory: InterviewsPoetry London: Firstly, many congratulations on winning 2nd prize in this year’s competition! Ilya was extremely impressed by the quality of the entries, so this is no small achievement. Can you tell us a little about when and why you [...]
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Category: InterviewsPoetry London regularly dedicates a third of its pages to poets who are new to the magazine. Here, Poetry Editor Martha Sprackland chats to Poetry London first-timer James Conor Patterson, whose wonderful poem ‘Dead Cat Bounce’ is published in the Summer issue of [...]
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Category: InterviewsVictoria Adukwei Bulley interviews Natalie Diaz in a time of lockdown VAB: I’d love to begin by asking you this: what is a poem? ND: A poem is like a hand – the hand is never what it is, and in many ways [...]
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CompetitionCategory: Interviews1. What did it feel like to win the Poetry London Prize? I will be forever grateful to Kwame Dawes for choosing my poem. I feel validated and more inspired to work on my poetry. Winning the prize, alongside others [...]
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CompetitionCategory: Interviews1. What did it feel like to win the Poetry London Prize? Writing poetry can often be a rather isolating activity; releasing a poem out into the world is often met with a resounding and rather dispiriting silence. To hear the news that [...]
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Category: InterviewsSuji Kwock Kim talks to Danez Smith on the eve of publishing their new book, Homie SKK: How would you articulate what’s specifically ‘American’ about US poetry – keeping in mind all the limitations of that word – versus English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh poetry? [...]
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Category: NewsPL: Dai, as Reviews Editor of Poetry London, how do you approach the editorial process for each issue and how do you make decisions about which books should be reviewed? DG: I start thinking about each issue with a couple [...]
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Category: NewsPL: Martha, this is your first issue as editor of the magazine. How did you approach selecting poems for the issue? MS: A combination of things, for this first go. I launched myself into the submissions pile, for one, gathering [...]
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Category: InterviewsKaren McCarthy Woolf talks to Ishion Hutchinson about poetry, islands and the sea as an enduring preoccupation and presence KMW: The sea is a strong motif in your work – a presence that carries with it a submarine quality, a sense of [...]
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Category: InterviewsI was in the Swiss mountain village of Grindelwald in August of 2018 when I opened my Twitter app and saw that the US poet Chelsey Minnis would be giving a reading in London, at the invitation of the Poetry [...]
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Category: InterviewsA few hours before the poet, novelist and playwright Fred D’ Aguiar was preparing to launch his eighth collection, Translations from Memory (Carcanet, 2018), I met with him to talk about his new work, one that will no doubt cement [...]
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Category: InterviewsWhen 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 its quicksilver cover, it seemed to make poetry a world [...]
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Category: InterviewsEH: 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, for various reasons, I didn’t finish in time to put [...]
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Category: InterviewsAndrea Brady’s work explores the potential of poetry to transform our lives, politics and communities. It also refuses to ignore the tensions that exist in the foundations and functions of poetic form. We talk about her latest book, The Strong [...]