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Autumn 2021 • Issue 100
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Online ExclusiveCategory: Columns
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 [...] -
Online ExclusiveCategory: Columns
(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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Online ExclusiveCategory: Essays
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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From the Archive
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From the Archive
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Category: EventsSaturday 23rd October 2021, 7–8.30pm Southbank Centre, Royal Festival Hall, Level 5 Function Room Tickets £7 Join us for a stellar line-up of poets as we celebrate Poetry London’s 100th issue. This event draws on the illustrious 33-year history of the magazine’s [...]