A student at the Poetry School (whose day job is as a magazine journalist) recently remarked to me that her interest in poetry came from it being a form of extreme writing. The analogy, I supposed, was to extreme sports [...]

Ben Lerner The Hatred of Poetry Fitzcarraldo, £9.99 My two-year-old daughter has a frustrating habit of asking for orange juice, then objecting to every way she might drink it. The juice is right, the cup and bottle are wrong. The juice [...]

Tom Pickard meets me at Maryport Station, Cumbria, and drives me back to his home, an old weathered terrace on a street between two pubs. On the wall behind us is a large framed photograph of the young Pickard, face-to-face [...]

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]Poetry London launches its Spring 2017 issue with readings from Roddy Lumsden, Rebecca Perry, A K Blakemore and Robert Herbert McClean. The evening will [...]

Daisy Lafarge reading backstage before the Autumn launch of Poetry London.

Matthew Dickman reading backstage before the autumn launch of Poetry London.

In Poésie et photographie – perhaps his last major essay before his death in July this year – Yves Bonnefoy turned to explore ‘the impact of the first photographs on the experience of the world, and the conduct of existence, [...]

CW: You’re in the UK to promote Brother, which Faber have published with two covers, front and back. The reader must pick one, read into the middle, then turn the book over and start again. The sense is of never-ending [...]

Luke Kennard Cain Penned in the Margins £12.99 Helen Mort No Map Could Show Them Chatto £10.00 In 2006 Luke Kennard held a funeral for irony. Commemorated in ‘A Sure-Fire Sign’, a poem from The Migraine Hotel, this ‘LOVING RHETORICAL [...]

Poetry London is delighted to announce that it has been awarded Catalyst Evolve funding for 2016-19. Out of the 140 organisations awarded the grant, only 6 are literature organisations and Poetry London is one of only 2 for poetry. Catalyst Evolve is a [...]