Romalyn Ante reads her prize-winning poem ‘Names’ from the Autumn 2018 issue of Poetry London, backstage at the Autumn launch.

Kwame Dawes reads ‘Mist’ backstage at the Autumn launch of Poetry London.

Kwame Dawes reads ‘It begins with the hog’ at the Autumn launch of Poetry London, where he awarded winners of the Poetry London Clore Prize 2018.

When I first read Ariana Reines’s third collection Mercury in 2011, I was blown away by the distinctiveness of her poetic voice and by the honesty of the writing. With its quicksilver cover, it seemed to make poetry a world [...]

Three seductive, political first collections Richard Scott Soho Faber £10.99 Abigail Parry Jinx Bloodaxe £9.95 Leah Umansky The Barbarous Century Eyewear £10.99 Sometimes when I feel like punishing myself I have a small think about what poetry is. This thinking [...]