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Category: NewsWe 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 [...]
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CompetitionCategory: InterviewsPL: 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 [...]
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CompetitionCategory: InterviewsPoetry 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? [...]
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CompetitionCategory: InterviewsPoetry 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 [...]
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Category: Videos
Readings from Raymond Antrobus, Rachael Boast, Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal, Jee Leong Koh, John McCullough and Claudine Toutoungi.
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Category: InterviewsPoetry 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 [...]
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Category: ReviewsMatthew 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 [...]
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Category: ReviewsMary 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 [...]
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Category: InterviewsVictoria 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 [...]
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Category: EssaysStephen 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 [...]