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Category: EventsPoetry London Summer 2023 Readings
Join us for the PL105 launch at Foyles Charing Cross Road!
We’re happy to announce our Summer issue launch at Foyles Charing Cross Road. The event will feature live readings from Jay Bernard, Ian Duhig, Mona Kareem, lisa luxx and Christos Koukis, as well as the winner of the Poetry London Pamphlet Prize (to be announced shortly). Join us on Thursday 6 July for an exciting poetry evening!
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Category: Events
Poetry London Spring 2023 Readings
Watch the PL104 launch on our YouTube channel!
This is a recording of our Spring Launch at the Southbank Centre, on March 26. The line-up consisted of poets Imtiaz Dharker, John Challis, Karen Solie, and Qudsia Akhtar.
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Category: Events
Poetry London Autumn 2022 Readings
Watch the PL103 launch on our YouTube channel!
This is a recording of our Summer Launch at the Southbank Centre as part of the London Literature Festival, on October 23. The line-up consisted of poets Mike Ford, Katie Peterson, Helen Bowell, Sudeep Sen, Eduardo Corral, and David Harsent.
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Category: Events
Poetry London Summer 2022 Readings
Watch the PL102 launch on our YouTube channel!
This is a recording of our Summer Launch at the Southbank Centre, on June 25. The line-up consisted of poets Grace Nichols, Rory Waterman, Yousif M Qasmiyeh, Jennifer Wong, and Will Burns.
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Category: Events
Poetry London Spring 2022 Readings
Watch the PL101 launch on our YouTube channel!
This is a recording of our Spring Launch at Hatchards, on March 26. The line-up consisted of poets Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Robert Selby, Romalyn Ante, Natalie Linh Bolderston, and Dante Micheaux.
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From modest beginnings in 1988, when it was a listings newsletter, Poetry London has developed into one of the UK’s leading national and international poetry magazines. We publish three times a year and feature poems and reviews from across the UK and [...] -
Category: Reviews
A Hole in Time’s Glove
Francesca Peacock on three collections whose inventive mythmaking remaps historical landscapes
Francesca Peacock
Do figs fold? Can you fold a fig without breaking it? Does its shape naturally double up and bend over itself? Forgive the fruit-based questioning, but it seems essential to the opening metaphor of Alycia Pirmohamed’s debut full-length collection, Another [...] -
Category: Interviews
Will Harris is a London-based writer. His debut collection, RENDANG, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize. He co-leads the Southbank Poetry Collective with Vanessa Kisuule, and works in extra care homes in Tower Hamlets as an activity worker. In the lead up to the publication of his second collection, Brother Poem (Granta, 2023), he sat down with our Reviews Editor Isabelle Baafi to talk about writing through absence and memories, both real and imagined.
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Category: Editorials
Refoundations
André Naffis-Sahely
Much has changed in the world of poetry since we celebrated the launch of our Autumn 2022 issue just five months ago. After sixty-four years in print, Ambit folded just shy of its 250th issue, while The Moth’s Spring 2023 [...] -
Online ExclusiveCategory: Columns
Averse Miscellany: Back To The Forwards
Camille Ralphs
As the Forward Prizes celebrate their first thirty years of existence, Camille Ralphs takes us back to 1992 and the first edition of these awards, employing the occasion to revisit poems by Tony Harrison, Jo Shapcott and Elizabeth Garrett featured in the inaugural Forward Book of Poetry.
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Online ExclusiveCategory: Reviews
Roadmaps to Possibility
Chrissy Williams on three books whose formal experimentations offer innovative frameworks for exploring identity and connection
Chrissy Williams
The first poem in any collection is perhaps the most important. It establishes the relationship with the reader, choosing whether to hold their hand or push them out the window. I think that’s especially true when setting forth an unconventional [...] -
Category: Interviews
Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer, and artist. Her debut pamphlet, Girl B, was published by the African Poetry Book Fund in 2017. Shortly following the publication of her debut collection, Quiet (Faber & Faber, 2022), she sat down with our Reviews Editor Isabelle Baafi to talk about the complexities of language, and the act of creating spaces for re-imagining and reclaiming.
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Category: Reviews
Seeing is Believing
David Wheatley on how two poets explore pastoral imaginations, the life of the senses and the language of faith
David Wheatley
A reader of J. M. Synge or the Blasket Island writers of the early twentieth century cannot help but notice how much closer life in the West of Ireland seemed to the American east coast than to Dublin. A contemporary [...]