Dutch Poet Tommes Gaarder and translator Chris Cusack read from ‘when my mother died’, in both the original and in English, followed by a discussion about the poem and their process of working together.

Becky Varley-Winter reads six groundbreaking new pamphlets Anita Pati Dodo Provocateur The Rialto £6 Arji Manuelpillai Mutton Rolls Out-Spoken £7 Jennifer Lee Tsai Kismet Ignition Press £5 Lauren Garland Darling Broken Sleep £6 Miranda Peake Yellow Live Canon £7 Suna Afshan [...]

Zoë Brigley reports on the possibilities and challenges of new technologies Talking to the Paris Review in 1982, Philip Larkin tells of his deep disdain for poetry readings, claiming that they ruin the personal relationship with a poem: ‘hearing it means you’re dragged [...]

Marvin Thompson reflects on the competing demands of creativity, community and activism in the year of the pandemic. In Wales, the first COVID-19 lockdown stretched from March to July, 2020. As a secondary school teacher, these months were filled with home [...]

Jennifer Lee Tsai interviews Bhanu Kapil about the trajectory of her career to date JLT: I wonder if I could ask you about when and how you started writing? What is the purpose of writing and who do you feel you are writing [...]

Martha Sprackland This issue of Poetry London is slightly chunkier than usual – no bad thing, of course, but an admission nonetheless. A lapse in control. At any rate, a bumper edition, the first of 2021, and, sadly, my last one as [...]