Stav PolegThe CityCarcanet £11.99 Helen Mort and Katrina NaomiSame But Different Hazel Press £10 Sarala EstruchSayFlipped Eye £4 Stav Poleg’s debut collection The City is a work of surreal and fantastical …
‘The Dead of the Greek Enclosure in West Norwood Cemetery Speak to Me’ by Kostya Tsolakis
For our exclusive set, only the best:pink granite, Portland stone, architects.Our tongues were glossed tilesfired in Eton and Harrow. Orthodox names,tough meat for English mouths, recastas Bobby, Alec, Jack. In …
‘Whose House Is It Anyway?’ Editorial by André Naffis-Sahely
“As institutions and festivals big and small have begun to return to solely in-person events, my enthusiasm for poetry itself began to wane” the poet and critic Karl Knights confesses …
‘No Disabled People Wanted Here: Accessing The Estate of Poetry’ by Karl Knights
Czesław Miłosz wrote that ‘a poet participates in the management of the estate of poetry’. However, when we roam around ‘the estate of poetry’, what do we encounter? Are the …
‘The Camp is a Bait for Time’ by Yousif M Qasmiyeh
With the shovel, my father reclaims the echo. Blow after blow until the wheat wakes … The camp preserves its metaphors in the same way it shields its navel from …
‘Collective Awakening’, Isabelle Baafi interviews Mohammed El-Kurd
Mohammed El-Kurd is an award-winning poet, journalist, and activist from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem, Palestine. His work has been featured in the Guardian, the Nation, and Al Jazeera …
Clanchy Responses: Judge, Jury and W(h)it(e)ness by Jannat Ahmed
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 …
Robert Selby on an engrossing collection of reviews and essays assembled over the course of thirty years.
John Greening Vapour Trails Shoestring Press, £12.50 ‘Why would anyone want to read old reviews by someone who isn’t even in an English Department, who understands next to nothing about …
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 …
‘Telling You The Truth, As Best As I Can’. Selima Hill and Julia Copus in correspondence
Selima and Julia first met in the Ladies toilets on the top floor of City Hall, London. They were there for the National Poetry Competition presentations in 2002, when Selima …
‘The Closing Hour’ by Carl Phillips
There are pleasures so ordinary that we barely notice them. They leave no impression worth mentioning, even. Notthe leaves but the delicate under-leaves that we’d somehow missed. Not the stranger whom …
Editorial by Dai George
For some reason, I’ve been thinking lately about an ornament in my childhood home. It looks like a flower trapped inside a star, with eight orange and blue petals intersecting …
‘The War Is Everywhere’, Sana Goyal on three debuts that explore terror, hunger and belonging across the Arab world
Threa Almontaser The Wild Fox of Yemen Picador £10.99 lisa luxx fetch your mother’s heart Out-Spoken £10 Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe Auguries of a Minor God Faber £10.99 Outside, …
‘What happened next?’ by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
So, will we ever be told what happened afterwards to the man who had fallen among thievesas he went down from Jerusalem to Jericho:half killed, what happened to himafter the …
‘The Lord Has Started Being Born Within Me’ by Vasyl Stus
The Lord has started being born within me and, half-recalled and half-forgotten, waitstill I depart from life. It looks as ifhe is outside me, at the edge of deathwhere living …
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 …
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