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Category: Interviews
Shouldn’t we all be quitters?
Dai George
To accompany this exclusive extract from John Ashbery’s Parallel Movement of the Hands, Dai George talks to the book’s editor, Emily Skillings DG: I’d like to start by thanking you, on behalf of all John Ashbery fans, for the wonderful work that you [...] -
Category: Interviews…no holds hyena! An interview with Fran Lock
Karolina Ros Olafsdottir
KO: I really loved the poem in the magazine and the energy in it. I was wondering if you could start with talking a little about ‘La Jena di Londra’ that appears in the Spring Issue? FL: I’ll try. This [...] -
Category: InterviewsJennifer Lee Tsai interviews Bhanu Kapil about the trajectory of her career to date JLT: I wonder if I could ask you about when and how you started writing? What is the purpose of writing and who do you feel you are writing [...]
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Category: InterviewsAL: Hi Romalyn. How are you? What’s life like where you are? RA: It has been a tough 2020 for everybody. Lockdown happened when my editor and I were putting the finishing touches to Antiemetic for Homesickness. I continue to work [...]
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Category: InterviewsAL: Hi Rachel. How are you? What poetry has been seeing you through these difficult times? RL: Throughout early-to-mid lockdown I couldn’t read a thing. That’s never happened before. I’ve always found solace in reading. Then I started chain-smoking novels. [...]
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Category: InterviewsDG: How are you? What’s life like where you are, at the time of writing? IE: I’m okay, I’m alright. Life for me at the moment oscillates between intense mundanity, intense emotional distress, absolute boredom, craving human touch and attention [...]
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Competition
Category: 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 [...] -
Competition
Category: 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? [...] -
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 [...]