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Quizzes… and Poetry as a Place Where It’s Okay Not to Know
A Conversation between Natalie Shapero and Yanita Georgieva
Yanita Georgieva, Natalie Shapero
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At the edge of language
Aminata Sow in conversation with Vanessa Onwuemezi
Aminata Sow, Vanessa Onwuemezi
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Re-Mapping the Language
Alec Finlay And Taylor Strickland: A Dialogue
Alec Finlay, Taylor Strickland
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Poetry Dialogues: An Inherited Fate
A conversation between Sarah Howe and Vidyan Ravinthiran
Sarah Howe, Vidyan Ravinthiran
Both Howe and Ravinthiran’s books excavate personal and political histories, tracing the evolutions of myths along the fault lines of conflict and intergenerational trauma.
The conversation below is an edited version of an exchange they had over Zoom.
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In 2008, the level of poets of colour published by major presses was less than 1%. By 2020, it was over 20%. The Complete Works – an initiative spearheaded by Bernardine Evaristo – played a significant role in this change by supporting 30 poets from 2008 to 2020. It has become the most successful collective ever formed in British poetry.
– ‘Mapping the Future: The Complete Works Poets’, edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf and Nathalie Teitler (Bloodaxe).
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A Conversation between Declan Ryan and Ange Mlinko
as part of a new Poetry London initiative supported by the Hawthornden Foundation
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Averse Miscellany: The Translation Itself
Camille Ralphs
The Poem Itself (1960) would be an excellent title for a hard-nosed, uncompromising volume of practical criticism. As a title for a volume of translations of poetry in modern European languages, it is rather bolder. When we meet with translations, [...] -
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Averse Miscellany: Palgrave’s Golden Treasury
Camille Ralphs
In her sixth instalment of her exclusive column for Poetry London, Camille Ralphs revisits one of the most influential English-language anthologies ever published, namely Palgrave’s Golden Treasury, and considers the rise and fall in the fortunes of various poets included in its pages, ranging from William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) to Roy Campbell (1901–1957).