Readings from Raymond Antrobus, Rachael Boast, Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal, Jee Leong Koh, John McCullough and Claudine Toutoungi.

Poetry London regularly dedicates a third of its pages to poets who are new to the magazine. Here, Poetry Editor Martha Sprackland chats to Poetry London first-timer James Conor Patterson, whose wonderful poem ‘Dead Cat Bounce’ is published in the Summer issue of [...]

Matthew James Holman on two poets imagining the world to come Peter Gizzi Sky Burial: New & Selected Poems Carcanet £14.99 Sean Bonney Our Death Commune Editions $20 Commonly practised in the Himalayas and the autonomous regions of Tibet, a sky [...]

Mary Jean Chan on three collections that centre female responses to history and trauma Mimi Khalvati Afterwardness Carcanet £9.99 Jacqueline Saphra Dad, Remember You Are Dead Nine Arches £9.99 Kate Noakes The Filthy Quiet Parthian £8.99 Afterwardness is Mimi Khalvati’s ninth poetry [...]

Victoria Adukwei Bulley interviews Natalie Diaz in a time of lockdown VAB: I’d love to begin by asking you this: what is a poem? ND: A poem is like a hand – the hand is never what it is, and in many ways [...]

Stephen Sexton on the mutable parameters of elegy Hail starts its patter and John joins me in the gazebo. I don’t know John, but we will talk, and thereafter nod hello to each other in the breakfast room, the lounge and [...]

Martha Sprackland ‘We just watched. A pandemic was always at the top of our national risk register – always – but when it came we just slowly watched. We could have been Germany but instead we were doomed by our [...]