Keston Sutherland The Odes to TL61P Enitharmon £8.99 Simon Jarvis Eighteen Poems Eyewear £12.99 Luke Kennard A Lost Expression Salt 12.99 Cherry Smyth Test, Orange Pindrop £9.99   Well before he had become the poster-boy of the ‘difficult’ in English [...]

Paul Muldoon Songs and Sonnets Enitharmon, £9.99 Paul Muldoon The Word on the Street Faber, £12.99 Benjamin Zephaniah (Film directed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce) To Do Wid Me Bloodaxe, £12.00 Luke Wright Mondeo Man Penned in the Margins, £9.99 John Hegley [...]

Judging the Poetry London competition was like going on a journey. Sometimes I recognised the terrain; often it was over-familiar. Then suddenly I’d get a jolt and wonder where I was. I’d try to get my bearings, feeling the excitement [...]

Jennifer Militello for ‘A Dictionary of Having Been Prey in the Voice of the Grandmother’ Alex Toms for ‘Becoming Sei’ NJ Hynes for ‘The Hands Washing Us’ David HW Grubb for ‘Joe Boy Learns His Words’

In a recent collection of essays Al Alvarez (adept at poker and extreme sport, and advocate in 1966 of new American poets ‘Beyond the Gentility Principle’) describes the writer alone with his own, rather dismal company. ‘For five or six [...]

EC: I wanted to ask you to what extent you regard your new book Pluto as a departure? The long poems explore your relationships, or, like the lyrical ‘Birthplace’, your home town. Writing poetry about personal subject matter is, you’ve said, unusual for [...]

Abdellatif Laâbi  The Rule of Barbarism (Translated by André Naffis-Sahely) Island Position $12.00 Ingeborg Bachmann  Enigma: Selected Poems (Translated by Mike Lyons and Patrick Drysdale) Ariadne $16.00 Manuel Rivas  The Disappearance of Snow (Translated by Lorna Shaughnessy) Shearsman £9.95   In his essay, The [...]

Sam Riviere  81 Austerities Faber £9.99 William Letford  Bevel Carcanet £9.95 Oli Hazzard  Between Two Windows Carcanet £9.95 Andrew Bailey  Zeal Enitharmon £9.99   Internet, you have ruined poetry. Must I list the ways? The slowness of print used to mean being a poet [...]

Poetry London started life back in 1988 as Poetry London Newsletter, produced with the aid of an Amstrad PCW and intermittent access to a photocopier. It was a project born of enthusiasm by a group of poets interested in creating a space [...]