Poetry London Masterclasses Poetry London is pleased to announce a series of three weekend masterclasses with three leading poets: Ahren Warner, Glyn Maxwell and Annie Freud. This is an opportunity to spend two days working to improve your poetry alongside a [...]

Poetry London will be launching  its Summer 2015 issue at Kings Place on 4 June. The launch will offer a unique opportunity to hear some of the magazine’s most distinguished contributors. Please join us for an evening of great poetry. Phillis Levin [...]

Along with its wider mood of remembrance, 2014 offered the opportunity to reconsider the work of two poets, born days apart a hundred years earlier. My parents had grown up in Swansea, Dylan Thomas’s ‘ugly lovely town’, during the same [...]

Michael Hulse divides the Mariannes from the Sylvias David Harsent Fire Songs Faber £12.99 Ruth Padel Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth Chatto £10.00 Roddy Lumsden Not All Honey Bloodaxe £8.95 One way of thinking about the differences and [...]

Sue Rose Heart Archives Hercules Editions, £10 Richard O’Brien The Emmores The Emma Press, £5 Harry Man Lift tall-lighthouse, £5 Holly Hopkins Soon Every House Will Have One Smith/Doorstop, £5 Ben Wilkinson For Real Smith/Doorstop, £5 Kate White The Old [...]

27 January 2015 Poetry London: Readings by Declan Ryan, Liz Berry and Chris McCabe Declan Ryan was born in Mayo, Ireland and lives in London. Selected as one of the Faber New Poets, his debut pamphlet was published by Faber & [...]

AP: Your last full-length collection, Self-Portrait in the Dark, was published in 2008. What have you been doing since then? CB: Well, I’ve been keeping going as a freelance, which involves many small employments. For four years I worked as [...]

Lavinia Greenlaw A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde Faber £16.99 Patience Agbabi Telling Tales Canongate £14.99 Both A Double Sorrow and Telling Tales borrow their basic frame from works by Chaucer. But compared with other, closer translations of medieval texts [...]

‘This is where we knelt on walnut leaves in the town of the word’, writes Carolyn Forché in On the Island of Theologos, the last of five extraordinary poems by Forché that you can read in this issue of Poetry London. Elsewhere, [...]