I came to the judging for the Poetry London Competition still somewhat reeling from judging the (unfiltered) National Poetry Competition. Not that I hadn’t found some keepers and gems in that process – just that there were times in the [...]

Peter Riley Due North Shearsman £9.95 Blake Morrison Shingle Street Chatto £10.00 In a recent New Statesman article, naturalist and environmental activist Mark Cocker described a subtle shift in British nature writing, evidenced in the popularity of books like Helen [...]

 JH Prynne Poems Bloodaxe £25.00 For dent inflict yet amuse enamel will livid exceed tactic nursing humid loss, nolore even alert at numb unwind entry. Level ground pacific inversion has wasted trapper, has few slicks. Run out portal upper What [...]

‘… I am a dictation, pronounces poetry, learn me by heart, copy me down, guard and keep me, look out for me, look at me, dictated dictation, right before your eyes: soundtrack, wake, trail of light, photograph of the feast [...]

Poetry London will be launching  its Autumn 2015 issue at Kings Place on Monday 9 November. The launch will offer a unique opportunity to hear some of the magazines most distinguished contributors, as well as the prize-winners from the Poetry London Competition [...]

Drew Milne on the revived reputation of Nicholas Moore Nicholas Moore Selected Poems (edited by John Lucas and Matthew Welton with an introduction by Mark Ford) Shoestring £14.99 Amid the scrambled history of neo-modernist revivals, the case for rediscovering Nicholas Moore [...]

David Wheatley on a new anthology of Early Irish poetry Maurice Riordan (Editor) The Finest Music: An Anthology of Early Irish Lyrics Faber £14.99 Seamus Heaney was not the first Ulster poet to travel south to my native County Wicklow. [...]

Six years ago a leading poetry publisher asked me if any of the editors ‘owned’ Poetry London. At the time I was taken aback by the question, which felt somehow intrusive and irrelevant. Since then events have intervened, marking the deepest [...]