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Category: EventsOur summer 2020 readings will now be taking place on YouTube Live on Thursday 18 June. With readings from Raymond Antrobus, Rachael Boast, Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal, Jee Leong Koh, John McCullough and Claudine Toutoungi. The event will be free, unticketed [...]
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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: NewsPoetry London seeks new non-executive members to join the Board of Trustees, to advise and support the magazine to achieve its artistic vision. We are looking for individuals with skills in the following areas: fundraising legal and copyright finance [...]
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Online ExclusiveCategory: Videos
Cromophilia (song for B): Love is energy, of course it is
Rishi Dastidar
Rishi Dastidar reads ‘Cromophilia (song for B): Love is energy, of course it is’ at the Spring launch of Poetry London.
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Drove
Emily Hasler
Emily Hasler reads ‘Drove’ at the Spring launch of Poetry London.
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As I entered the forest
Joe Dunthorne
Joe Dunthorne reads ‘As I entered the forest’ at the Spring launch of Poetry London.
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Looking for the Heart
Martha Kapos
Martha Kapos reads ‘Looking for the Heart’ at the Spring launch of Poetry London.
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Category: ReviewsRishi Dastidar on three collections that offer varied responses in an age of crisis Mark Waldron Sweet, like Rinky-Dink Bloodaxe £9.95 Kei Miller In Nearby Bushes Carcanet £9.99 Richard Osmond Rock, Paper, Scissors Picador £10.99 I’m sure it’s something we’ve all [...]
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Category: ReviewsPhoebe Clarke on two morally searching, oracular books Ilya Kaminsky Deaf Republic Faber £10.99 Ariana Reines A Sand Book Tin House $24.95 ‘There are exercises in the spiritual sense,’ wrote Paul Celan. ‘And then there are, at every lyrical street corner, [...]
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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: EssaysJoey Connolly on the poems – and ways of reading – that inspire trust ‘It is more shameful to distrust your friends than be deceived by them’ – François de La Rochefoucauld, although really I’m quoting from the Denise Riley poem ‘Lines [...]
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Category: EditorialsDai George Should a poem be thought of as a friend? Obviously poets can be friends, and I’d guess that few people, if any, would lobby for an alternative reality where this was somehow prohibited or frowned upon. This is [...]