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Category: Podcasts
After taking a break last year as we took Poetry London on tour around the UK to celebrate the publication of PL’s 100th issue, we’re happy to be back with the second episode of the Poetry London Podcast. This episode features readings by poets Chris McCabe, Romalyn Ante, and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.
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Online ExclusiveCategory: ColumnsThe year 1922 was ushered in with a megaphone. On 24 January, Edith Sitwell held the private debut of Façade, her modernist poem, with avant-garde musical accompaniments by the little-known teenager composer William Walton. At the first public performance the [...]
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Robert Selby on an engrossing collection of reviews and essays assembled over the course of thirty years
Robert Selby
‘Why would anyone want to read old reviews by someone who isn’t even in an English Department, who understands next to nothing about Theory?’ So asks John Greening in the preface to this selection of his reviews and essays, all [...] -
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Averse Miscellany: Let There Be Bad Poetry!
Camille Ralphs
In her third instalment of her exclusive column for Poetry London, Camille Ralphs takes a riotously funny look at a ninety-year-old compendium of bad poetry and considers what separates ‘bad verse’ from ‘good bad verse’. Is it possible for us [...] -
Category: InterviewsSelima and Julia first met in the Ladies toilets on the top floor of City Hall, London. They were there for the National Poetry Competition presentations in 2002, when Selima was part of the judging panel and Julia had been [...]
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Online ExclusiveCategory: Editorials
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Dai George
For some reason, I’ve been thinking lately about an ornament in my childhood home. It looks like a flower trapped inside a star, with eight orange and blue petals intersecting the perimeter of an eight-point ceramic tile. My parents bought [...] -
Online ExclusiveCategory: ReviewsThrea Almontaser The Wild Fox of Yemen Picador £10.99 lisa luxx fetch your mother’s heart Out-Spoken £10 Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe Auguries of a Minor God Faber £10.99 Outside, the news is always breaking. For Middle Eastern witnesses, the [...]
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Category: News
Poetry London Prize 2021: Judge’s Report
Malika Booker
As a judge, I always ask myself the following questions when selecting the winners: What haunts you? What stands out? What poem made you forget you were a judge and ignited your curiosity, your admiration, your appreciation? Then, I make my decisions.
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Online ExclusiveCategory: Columnsby Jon Stone An odd thing: whenever I see or hear the words ‘my father’ in a poem, I almost immediately tune out. It’s like a deactivation switch. Sometimes I have to fight the urge to visibly sigh, groan, or [...]
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Averse Miscellany: The New Poetry, Part 2 of 2
Camille Ralphs
Literary canons are fickle beasts and in this exciting new column for Poetry London, Camille Ralphs asks whether some of these ejections have been just, and what the poets themselves might have done to warrant them. You may read Part [...] -
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(Good) Person Poems
Rory Waterman
Rory Waterman offers a stirring op-ed on the negative effects of superficial do-goodery and inadvertent self-flattery on contemporary poetry and how such tendencies often simplify moral and intellectual complexities to the detriment of the art being produced. The host lets [...] -
Online ExclusiveCategory: EditorialsFor the current editorial team, the experience of putting together Poetry London 100 has been exciting and humbling in equal measure. There’s something arbitrary about participating in such a milestone – a happy accident of timing, though you’d be kidding [...]
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Announcement
Category: EventsWe are delighted to share the details of our programme of events outside London to celebrate the publication of our 100th issue this autumn. Please click on the links below for further details, and to book your ticket. Saturday Oct [...]