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Category: ReviewsRachael Allen, Kingdomland (Faber, £10.99) Sophie Robinson, Rabbit (Boiler House Press, £10) A K Blakemore, Fondue (Offord Road Books, £10) Rachael Allen’s Kingdomland is a dream sequence, nightmarish and visionary, replete with apostles burning, forests burning and boundaries (both physical and metaphorical) [...]
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Category: InterviewsI was in the Swiss mountain village of Grindelwald in August of 2018 when I opened my Twitter app and saw that the US poet Chelsey Minnis would be giving a reading in London, at the invitation of the Poetry [...]
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Category: EssaysWhat is your favourite lost poem? There’s a lot of material (not) out there to choose from, from the lost plays of Aeschylus to the discarded hospital poems of Anne Sexton and Ivan Blatný. Ezra Pound thought poetry was the [...]
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Category: EditorialsWho Is The Poet? Emily Dickinson referred to herself as a ‘supposed person’. In Negotiating with the Dead Margaret Atwood describes her own ‘slippery double’ as a kind of secret agent, different from the literal, factual self who exists when ‘no writing [...]
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Category: NewsWednesday 12 June – 7pm The launch of the Summer issue of Poetry London features live readings from Timothy Donnelly, Karen McCarthy-Woolf, Abigail Parry and Jack Underwood. The evening will be hosted by the magazine’s Poetry Co-Editor, Martha Kapos. This [...] -
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Inishbofin: I, II, III, and IV
Vahni Capildeo
Vahni Capildeo reads Inishbofin: I, II, III, and IV, at the Spring launch of Poetry London.
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Tower of masks
Rachael Allen
Rachael Allen reads Tower of masks from Kingdomland at the Spring launch of Poetry London.
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beaches (9), beaches (12)
Rebecca Perry
Rebecca Perry reads beaches (9) and beaches (12) at the Spring launch of Poetry London.
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Ringing Völundarkviða / Wayland Smith Moves
Vahni Capildeo
Vahni Capildeo reads Ringing Völundarkviða / Wayland Smith Moves, from Skin Can Hold, at the Spring launch of Poetry London.
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Category: EditorialsI was reminded, recently, of something I blurted out, years ago, at a ‘roundtable’ on the shady business of poetry publishing. Apparently, barely into the job at Poetry London, I had made the case rather forcefully that, as an editor, [...]
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Category: ReviewsVictoria Adukwei Bulley appreciates three debut collections that understand the weight of language Raymond Antrobus The Perseverance Penned in the Margins £9.99 Zaffar Kunial Us Faber £10.99 Sohini Basak we live in the newness of small differences Eyewear £10.99 It [...]
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Category: InterviewsA few hours before the poet, novelist and playwright Fred D’ Aguiar was preparing to launch his eighth collection, Translations from Memory (Carcanet, 2018), I met with him to talk about his new work, one that will no doubt cement [...]
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Category: EssaysWill Harris on poetry and the moral subject ‘Perspective’ makes me think of the art class in which we were taught to draw a tree-lined path. I had to pick a point on the horizon and then draw a series [...]