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Category: InterviewsTL: Hi Major! I’d like to start off by asking, if poetry is a lamp that is present as we search for truth, what is one truth you keep rediscovering when writing your poems? MJ: One of the great problems [...]
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Category: Interviews
Shouldn’t we all be quitters?
Dai George
To accompany this exclusive extract from John Ashbery’s Parallel Movement of the Hands, Dai George talks to the book’s editor, Emily Skillings DG: I’d like to start by thanking you, on behalf of all John Ashbery fans, for the wonderful work that you [...] -
Category: Essays
I Wake With His Name On My Tongue
Fred D’Aguiar
excerpted from Year of Plagues: A 2020 Memoir (HarperCollins, 2021) George Floyd, I add your name to a long and growing list of those killed by the police, though no less of a shock to see over nine minutes of an officer [...] -
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Category: Editorials
Editorial by André Naffis-Sahely, Issue 99
André Naffis-Sahely
I am a citizen of the world, and therefore, according to some, a citizen of nowhere. Having been forced to leave the United Arab Emirates at the age of eighteen, when I outgrew my status as one of my Iranian [...] -
Category: NewsWe are excited to announce the line-up for our Summer 2021 Online Readings, to celebrate the launch of the magazine’s latest issue, the first under the editorship of André Naffis-Sahely. For this online event, we will be joined by Sarah [...] -
Announcement
Category: NewsThe Board of Poetry London has elected Astrid Alben as Chair of Trustees, succeeding Sophia Blackwell. The appointment took effect on 22 March, 2021. Astrid Alben is a poet, editor and translator. Most recently she was the acting CEO and [...] -
Online ExclusiveCategory: Videos
Poetry London‘s Spring 2021 Online Readings, broadcast live on Wednesday 17 February 2021. With readings from Jay Bernard, Major Jackson, Fran Lock, Holly Pester, Jacob Polley and Nicole Sealey.
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Category: Interviews…no holds hyena! An interview with Fran Lock
Karolina Ros Olafsdottir
KO: I really loved the poem in the magazine and the energy in it. I was wondering if you could start with talking a little about ‘La Jena di Londra’ that appears in the Spring Issue? FL: I’ll try. This [...] -
Category: Videos
Tommes Gaarder & Chris Cusack reading from ‘when my mother died’ (in Dutch and in translation)
Tommes Gaarder, Chris Cusack
Dutch Poet Tommes Gaarder and translator Chris Cusack read from ‘when my mother died’, in both the original and in English, followed by a discussion about the poem and their process of working together.
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Category: ReviewsBecky Varley-Winter reads six groundbreaking new pamphlets Anita Pati Dodo Provocateur The Rialto £6 Arji Manuelpillai Mutton Rolls Out-Spoken £7 Jennifer Lee Tsai Kismet Ignition Press £5 Lauren Garland Darling Broken Sleep £6 Miranda Peake Yellow Live Canon £7 Suna Afshan [...]
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Category: EssaysZoë Brigley reports on the possibilities and challenges of new technologies Talking to the Paris Review in 1982, Philip Larkin tells of his deep disdain for poetry readings, claiming that they ruin the personal relationship with a poem: ‘hearing it means you’re dragged [...]
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Category: EssaysMarvin Thompson reflects on the competing demands of creativity, community and activism in the year of the pandemic. In Wales, the first COVID-19 lockdown stretched from March to July, 2020. As a secondary school teacher, these months were filled with home [...]