Martha Sprackland This issue of Poetry London is slightly chunkier than usual – no bad thing, of course, but an admission nonetheless. A lapse in control. At any rate, a bumper edition, the first of 2021, and, sadly, my last one as [...]

Poetry London has announced the appointment of André Naffis-Sahely as its new Poetry Editor. A leading poet and translator in his own right, Naffis-Sahely arrives with a bold, outward-looking artistic vision for the magazine, building on its enduring priorities and commitment [...]

Dear Contributor, This is a courtesy letter to inform you of a new and exciting project at Poetry London. As a contributor to Poetry London, we thought that you would be pleased to know that as we approach the landmark [...]

Poetry London was deeply saddened to learn of Derek Mahon’s death last week, and we join with the rest of the poetry community in mourning his loss and paying tribute to his talent. He was a true great, one whose work [...]

AL: Hi Romalyn. How are you? What’s life like where you are? RA: It has been a tough 2020 for everybody. Lockdown happened when my editor and I were putting the finishing touches to Antiemetic for Homesickness. I continue to work [...]

AL: Hi Rachel. How are you? What poetry has been seeing you through these difficult times?  RL: Throughout early-to-mid lockdown I couldn’t read a thing. That’s never happened before. I’ve always found solace in reading. Then I started chain-smoking novels. [...]

DG: How are you? What’s life like where you are, at the time of writing? IE: I’m okay, I’m alright. Life for me at the moment oscillates between intense mundanity, intense emotional distress, absolute boredom, craving human touch and attention [...]

Danez Smith homie Chatto £10.99 homie, Danez Smith’s third poetry collection, is not called homie. Instead, a note on the title informs us that the poems – all 38 of them, spread across Chatto’s wide pages and wrapped in a fluorescent [...]

My parents, told already by their GP I was deaf in one ear and developmentally delayed (shown a cartoon horse in a field, I shouted ‘cow!’), reacted sceptically when it was suggested, too, that I had a speech impediment. For [...]

We are excited to announce the line-up for our Autumn 2020 Readings. For this online event, we will be joined by Romalyn Ante, Layla Benitez-James, Hannah Lowe, Canisia Lubrin, Togara Muzanenhamo, sam sax, and the winners of the Poetry London Prize [...]

PL: Firstly, huge congratulations on winning 1st prize in this year’s competition! Ilya was extremely impressed by the quality of the entries, so this is a great achievement. Can you tell us a little about when and why you wrote [...]

Poetry London: Many congratulations on winning 3rd prize in this year’s competition! Can you tell us a little about when and why you wrote this poem, and why you felt it was the right one to submit to the prize? [...]

Poetry London: Firstly, many congratulations on winning 2nd prize in this year’s competition! Ilya was extremely impressed by the quality of the entries, so this is no small achievement. Can you tell us a little about when and why you [...]