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Summer 2023 • Issue 105
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Online ExclusiveCategory: Columns
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).
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Online ExclusiveCategory: Interviews
Victoria Chang is the author of The Trees Witness Everything (Copper Canyon Press, 2022), Dear Memory (Milkweed, 2021), and OBIT (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), which was named a New York Times Notable Book, a Time Must-Read Book, and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. Her forthcoming book of poems, With My Back to the World, will be published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. In the lead-up to her new collection, Jennifer Wong sat down with her to discuss how innovations of form and lyricism can bridge the layers of identity and grief.
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Category: Interviews
Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. His poetry has won many awards, including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, all three Forward Prizes and, on two occasions, the T S Eliot Prize. He was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009. Until recently he was Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews (he is now Professor Emeritus), and was Poetry Editor at Picador Macmillan for twenty-five years. He also works as a jazz musician. Shortly after the launch of his memoir, Toy Fights: A Boyhood (Faber, 2023), he sat down with our Reviews Editor Isabelle Baafi to talk about the influence of music and play on his childhood and poetry.
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Category: Reviews
Resurrection Dance
Dzifa Benson on two debut collections that reanimate the long-forgotten past
Dzifa Benson
Given that dance expression is so integral to Cane, Corn & Gully – Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa’s hallucinatory debut collection – it’s curious to see that in the short essay-poem ‘Preface’, which itself unconventionally occurs on page 19 of the book, [...]
