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Online ExclusiveCategory: ColumnsThe year 1922 was ushered in with a megaphone. On 24 January, Edith Sitwell held the private debut of Façade, her modernist poem, with avant-garde musical accompaniments by the little-known teenager composer William Walton. At the first public performance the [...]
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Robert Selby on an engrossing collection of reviews and essays assembled over the course of thirty years
Robert Selby
‘Why would anyone want to read old reviews by someone who isn’t even in an English Department, who understands next to nothing about Theory?’ So asks John Greening in the preface to this selection of his reviews and essays, all [...] -
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Averse Miscellany: Let There Be Bad Poetry!
Camille Ralphs
In her third instalment of her exclusive column for Poetry London, Camille Ralphs takes a riotously funny look at a ninety-year-old compendium of bad poetry and considers what separates ‘bad verse’ from ‘good bad verse’. Is it possible for us [...] -
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Dai George
For some reason, I’ve been thinking lately about an ornament in my childhood home. It looks like a flower trapped inside a star, with eight orange and blue petals intersecting the perimeter of an eight-point ceramic tile. My parents bought [...] -
Online ExclusiveCategory: ReviewsThrea Almontaser The Wild Fox of Yemen Picador £10.99 lisa luxx fetch your mother’s heart Out-Spoken £10 Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe Auguries of a Minor God Faber £10.99 Outside, the news is always breaking. For Middle Eastern witnesses, the [...]
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Online ExclusiveCategory: Columnsby Jon Stone An odd thing: whenever I see or hear the words ‘my father’ in a poem, I almost immediately tune out. It’s like a deactivation switch. Sometimes I have to fight the urge to visibly sigh, groan, or [...]
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Averse Miscellany: The New Poetry, Part 2 of 2
Camille Ralphs
Literary canons are fickle beasts and in this exciting new column for Poetry London, Camille Ralphs asks whether some of these ejections have been just, and what the poets themselves might have done to warrant them. You may read Part [...] -
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(Good) Person Poems
Rory Waterman
Rory Waterman offers a stirring op-ed on the negative effects of superficial do-goodery and inadvertent self-flattery on contemporary poetry and how such tendencies often simplify moral and intellectual complexities to the detriment of the art being produced. The host lets [...] -
Online ExclusiveCategory: EditorialsFor the current editorial team, the experience of putting together Poetry London 100 has been exciting and humbling in equal measure. There’s something arbitrary about participating in such a milestone – a happy accident of timing, though you’d be kidding [...]
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Gaps in the Wall: Tarn MacArthur on forms of belonging and unbelonging in two South African poets
Tarn MacArthur
The best poetry of place is a poetry of negative capability; of intimacy leveraged not to cement a totalising perspective but to recast a vision of the world from a slant that reveals certain complexities and truths that have gone [...] -
Online ExclusiveCategory: InterviewsSohini Basak: Ever since the pandemic broke out, I’ve so often come face to face with the inadequacy of words while grieving or trying to console a loved one. In that context, thank you so much for writing Outgoing Vessel, [...]
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Online ExclusiveCategory: ReviewsSupriya Kaur Dhaliwal The Yak Dilemma Makina Books, £10 Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal’s debut collection, The Yak Dilemma, is composed of odes to – and eulogies for – landscapes: she is often unanchored in the present, but commits these coordinates to [...]
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Online ExclusiveCategory: ReviewsSarah Lasoye Fovea / Ages Ago Hajar Press £10 The problem with the passage of time is that we can never see beyond the moment we occupy. Our desires and experiences can cloud our understanding of what constitutes past, present [...]
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Averse Miscellany: The New Poetry, Part 1 of 2
Camille Ralphs
Camille Ralphs Literary canons are fickle beasts and in this exciting new column for Poetry London, Camille Ralphs asks whether some ejections from the English-speaking canon have been just, and what the poets themselves might have done to warrant them. [...]