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 …
‘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 …
‘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 …
‘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 …
