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Category: InterviewsKaren McCarthy Woolf talks to Ishion Hutchinson about poetry, islands and the sea as an enduring preoccupation and presence KMW: The sea is a strong motif in your work – a presence that carries with it a submarine quality, a sense of [...]
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Category: ReviewsKate Potts reads three collections that focus on reclaimed and reimagined voices Jane Yeh Discipline Carcanet £9.99 Julia Copus Girlhood Faber £14.99 J O Morgan Assurances Cape £10.00 Jane Yeh’s third collection, Discipline, employs formal and structural games and constraints to explore [...]
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Category: ReviewsNisha Ramayya outlines the political stakes in poetry at the intersection of feminism and the occult Francesca Lisette sub rosa: The Book of Metaphysics Boiler House Press £10 MacGillivray The Gaelic Garden of the Dead Bloodaxe £12 Rebecca Tamás Witch Penned [...]
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Category: EditorialsMartha Sprackland One day a man of the people said to Zen Master Ikkyū: ‘Master, will you please write for me some maxims of the highest wisdom?’ Ikkyū immediately took his brush and wrote the word ‘Attention’. ‘Is that all?’ asked [...]
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Competition
Category: NewsMartha Sprackland: Well, this will be fun, I think! I’d like to start off by congratulating you again on your triumph – well done! I know the judge, Sasha Dugdale, was impressed by the winners, and it’s exciting that we’ll [...] -
Category: NewsWednesday 23 October, 7pm The very special launch of the Autumn issue of Poetry London features live readings from Lucy Mercer, Mona Arshi, Clore Prize judge Sasha Dugdale and the three winners of the 2019 Prize, and Poet Laureate Simon Armitage. Please join us to hear some [...] -
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Speculum
Abigail Parry
Abigail Parry reads ‘Speculum’ at the Summer launch of Poetry London.
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Online ExclusiveCategory: Videos
Insomnia
Timothy Donnelly
Timothy Donnelly reads ‘Insomnia’ at the Summer launch of Poetry London.
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Category: ReviewsRoy McFarlane, The Healing Next Time (Nine Arches Press, £9.99) Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin, £9.99) By the time this review is published, it’s a near certainty that another person of colour in the [...]
