View the full programme. The 1970s gave rise to ground breaking critical work on the male gaze, with thinkers such as Laura Mulvey and John Berger interrogating the phallocentric look—the representation of women in the arts as passive objects of [...]

Andrea Brady’s work explores the potential of poetry to transform our lives, politics and communities. It also refuses to ignore the tensions that exist in the foundations and functions of poetic form. We talk about her latest book, The Strong [...]

Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf The Sea-Migrations/Tahriib (Translated by Clare Pollard, with Said Jama Hussein and Maxamed Xasan ‘Alto’) Bloodaxe £12.00 Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf is a contemporary Somali poet who has lived in exile in Britain for twenty-five years. Despite [...]

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Judging a poetry competition is like putting your ear to a seashell to hear what the sea has to say: a strange, choric and slightly unreal experience, a multitude of voices rising up and washing over you from out of [...]

Mervyn Morris Peelin Orange: Collected Poems Carcanet £14.99 Lorna Goodison Collected Poems Carcanet £14.99 I first encountered poems by Mervyn Morris and Lorna Goodison over twenty years ago, at a time when I was living in a rural town in [...]

In Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, Susan Stewart recounts a strange haunting. It concerns one of Nicholas Abraham’s psychoanalytic patients: an amateur geologist and entomologist, who spends his weekend hikes breaking rocks and catching butterflies. Through these pastimes, [...]