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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 [...]