A student at the Poetry School (whose day job is as a magazine journalist) recently remarked to me that her interest in poetry came from it being a form of …
The Hatred of Lerner: Caleb Klaces on his struggle with Ben Lerner’s poetics
Ben Lerner The Hatred of Poetry Fitzcarraldo, £9.99 My two-year-old daughter has a frustrating habit of asking for orange juice, then objecting to every way she might drink it. The juice …
No Need For Permission: Tom Pickard talks to Chris McCabe about poetry and political activism
Tom Pickard meets me at Maryport Station, Cumbria, and drives me back to his home, an old weathered terrace on a street between two pubs. On the wall behind us …
Many Bird Roast by Rachael Allen
I came in, dandy and present arguing for a moratorium on meat of the kind splayed out on the table, legs akimbo like a fallen-over ice skater skidding on her …
Kissing Edwin Morgan by Roddy Lumsden
seems uncanny because he is gay and I am straight and because the day is especially cold. A hungry kisser, kissing him brings out the hive that is him. A …
john
i do not know my grandfather, who is a famous photographer who works primarily in black and white. although i know he is not a large man, i think of …
