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Autumn 2024

Issue 109

The Autumn 2024 issue includes three new poems by featured author Ian Duhig, as well as new work by Liz Berry, Mimi Khalvati, Pascale Petit, Fiona Sze-Lorrain, and Kathleen Jamie. This bumper issue also introduces a vibrant offering of prose with Vidyan Ravinthiran on the poetics of memory and displacement. Our interviews section finds Imtiaz Dharker in conversation with Benjamin J. Larner. The reviews section contains criticism by Declan Ryan, Godelieve de Bree, Rishi Dastidar, and more.

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Summer 2024

Issue 108

The Summer 2024 issue, the first of new editor Niall Campbell, contains poetry by Michael Longley, Ian Humphreys, Isobel Dixon, Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Helen Mort, and more. The issue also has mini features on the subject of ‘work’, that aim to make connections between the jobs done by poets and its impact on their writing. For the first time, Poetry London is also proud to partner with the Society of Authors to showcase poetry by this year’s recipients of the Eric Gregory Award. Also featured are translations of Laura Wittner by Juana Adcock, Jason Allen-Paisant‘s Stanza Poetry Festival lecture, prose from Joey Connolly, reviews, and an interview between Jennifer Lee Tsai and Hala Alyan.

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Drunk Daddy's Girl

Madara Gruntmane-Dujana (poet, artist, pianist) was born in Liepaja, Latvia in 1981. Since 2015 she has participated in several workshops, poetry readings and international organisations including Iowa University’s International Writing Program, Davenport FIGGE Art Museum Reading, Iowa City Book Festival and varios poetry festivals in Europe such as Berlin Poetry festival, Poets in Transylvania, International Poetry Festival Transpoésie in Brussels, International Poetry Festival in Birmingham, London Book Fair, Cretes poetry festival, Istanbul poetry festival and others.

She published three poetry collections Aizmīlestība (Afterlove. Riga: Neputns, 2022), Dzērājmeitiņa (Drunk Daddy’s Girl. Riga: Neputns, 2018) and Narkozes (Narcoses. Riga: Neputns, 2015). Her books have been published in UK and Turkey.

Her artworks were exhibited in Riga Art Space, Tallinn Art Hall, Kommagene Bienal in Turkey and Video Poetry festival in Athens.

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Flying on Easter

Dan O’Brien is a poet, playwright, and nonfiction writer whose recognition includes a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize, the Edward M. Kennedy Prize, the Horton Foote Prize, and two PEN America Awards. He has taught at Princeton University, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and elsewhere. O’Brien’s five poetry collections are Survivor’s Notebook, Our Cancers, Scarsdale, New Life, and War Reporter. A collection of O’Brien’s essays on playwriting, A Story That Happens, was published in the UK and in the US in 2021. In 2023 he published his memoir, From Scarsdale: A Childhood, and a collection of plays, True Story: A Trilogy. In 2024 his play Newtown, winner of the 2024 Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Theatre Visions Fund Award, received its world premiere at Geva Theatre. O’Brien lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.

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Grey Coats and Nokia Phones

Jemilea Wisdom–Baako is a British-Jamaican poet and founder of Writerz and Scribez CIC. A London Writers Award and Poetry London’s mentoring scheme recipient, she was shortlisted for the Rebecca Swift Women’s Poetry Prize and The Bridport Poetry Prize. Current holder of the Poetry School MA scholarship, her work appears in Magma, Poetry London, Pittsburgh Poetry Review and elsewhere.

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Spring 2024

Issue 107

The Spring 2024 issue features work by Mona Kareem, as translated by Sara Elkamel, as well as new poems by Mary Ruefle, Paul Muldoon, Khaled Mattawa, Marilyn Chin, Maria Stepanova, Timothy Donnelly, B.K. Fischer, Katie Peterson, Kimiko Hahn, and John Kinsella, among many others. This is André Naffis-Sahely’s final issue as poetry editor and it includes a valedictory editorial. Also featured are translations from Arabic, French, Hindi, Macedonian and Russian, as well as ‘House of Feels’, a craft essay by Dana Levin on sublimating pain through poetry, while Isabelle Baafi interviews Terrance Hayes and Tim Z. Hernandez.

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Autumn 2023

Issue 106

The Autumn 2023 issue includes four new poems by featured author Michael Hofmann, as well as new work by Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Monica Youn, Luke Kennard, Glyn Maxwell, Cindy Juyoung Ok, Jesse Nathan, and leena aboutaleb. Also in the issue are poems originally written in Arabic, Czech, Greek, Nüshu, and Spanish, among which a long-awaited fresh take on ‘The Hanging Poem of Imru al-Qays’ by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and five new poems by Homero Aridjis as translated by Forrest Gander. This bumper issue also introduces an expanded offering of prose with Dan O’Brien on the defiant and redemptive power of confessional writing and Rachel Hadas on translating Ovid and finding comfort in a world plagued by apathy and disaster. Our interviews section sees Kostya Tsolakis in conversation with Harris Otabasis and Nikolas Koutsodontis, the editors of the Anthology of Greek Queer Poetry, while Sohini Basak interviews Meena Kandasamy. The reviews section sports criticism by Tarn MacArthur, Aliyah Begum, Lily McDermott, and Tristram Fane Saunders.

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Summer 2023

Issue 105

The Summer 2023 issue features three new poems from Jay Bernard, as well as new work by Ian Duhig, Meena Kandasamy, D. Nurkse, Yang Lian, Katharina Schultens, Victoria Chang, Pascale Petit, Declan Ryan, Sunnah Khan, Jamal Mehmood and lisa luxx, among many others. Translations include poems originally written in Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Nepali & Spanish by Mahmoud Darwish, José Luis Díaz-Granados, Amir Or, Katharina Schultens and Avinash Shrestha. Elsewhere, Isabelle Baafi interviews Don Paterson, while our reviews section carries criticism by Dzifa Benson, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Patrick Romero McCafferty and alice hiller.

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Spring 2023

Issue 104

In the Spring 2023 issue, our featured author Imtiaz Dharker gives us a sneak preview of her latest collection, where she tells the story of how a ‘Shadow Reader’ once predicted her death in 2022, and her experience of living with that prediction. The issue also carries new poems by Karen Solie, Oli Hazzard, Jane Hirshfield, Randall Horton, D.S. Marriott, Qudsia Akhtar, Christopher Merrill, and Eleni Sikelianos, among others. Translations include work by the German poet Ulrike Almut Sandig, the Greek poet Haris Vlavianos, a Scoto-Japanese-Anglo-Sumerian haiku by Robert Crawford, and a poem drawn from the final collection by the late great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski (1945-2021).

Prose contributions include an excerpt from Anne Waldman‘s Bard, Kinetic, a portrait of her life and praxis as a poet, and an essay by Travis Schuhardt on finding haiku during the pandemic. Elsewhere, Isabelle Baafi interviews Will Harris, while our reviews section engages with new collections by Ilse Aichinger, Rohan Chhetri, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Jane Griffiths, Alycia Pirmohamed, as well as Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan’s anthology, 100 Queer Poets.

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Autumn 2022

Issue 103

Featuring a wholly new look, the magazine’s first radical redesign in twenty years, the Autumn 2022 issue of Poetry London carries a new poem by our featured author, Mark Ford, in addition to work by Katie Peterson, Khairani Barokka, Bernard O’Donoghue, Rachel Mannheimer, Oksana Maksymchuk, Shash Trevett and Jee Leong Koh. This issue also features the winners of the 2022 Poetry London Prize, judged by Romalyn Ante, as well as interviews with Pascale Petit and Victoria Adukwei Bulley.

Prose contributions include the 2022 Verve Poetry Festival Lecture by Stephanie Sy-Quia, Zoë Brigley on writing through borderline personality disorder, and the literary influence of Sylvia Plath and Jean Rhys, and reviews by Stephanie Burt, David Wheatley and Jennifer Wong, review collections by Victoria Chang, Paul Tran, Thomas Lynch, Carl Phillips, Claire Askew and Simone Atangana Bekono.

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Poetry London Annual Lecture

Announcing the launch of the new Poetry London Lecture series, which will commission the world’s leading poets to give a reading of their poetry, as well as a talk on the general subject of poetry.

The inaugural 2023 Lecture will be given by Alice Notley, one of America’s greatest living poets and the author of over 40 books of poetry, including Disobedience (2001), which was awarded the Griffin International Poetry Prize.

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Summer 2022

Issue 102

The Summer 2022 issue of Poetry London proudly carries new poems by our featured author, Grace Nichols, who was recently awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, in addition to work by Yousif M Qasmiyeh, Sean O’Brien, Kostya Tsolakis, Jennifer Wong, Fred D’Aguiar, Saddiq Dzukogi and Jenny Xie, as well as Jemilea Wisdom-Baako, a recent participant of our mentoring scheme, who makes her debut appearance in the magazine.

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Spring 2022

Issue 101

The Spring 2022 issue of Poetry London includes a generous selection of new work by our featured author, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, as well as poems by Romalyn Ante, Natalie Linh Bolderston, Gboyega Odubanjo, Oksana Vasyakina, LeAnne Howe, Mona Kareem, and Robert Selby.

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Autumn 2021

Issue 100

Poetry London‘s 100th issue marks 33 years in print as one of the UK’s leading poetry magazines. This hardcover bumper issue – featuring a specially-commissioned silver block-printed design – features a retrospective showcase of poems entitled ‘Our History in Verse’, which includes work by Les Murray, Alice Oswald, Kwame Dawes, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Sharon Olds, Moniza Alvi, Fred D’Aguiar, Alice Notley, Kathleen Jamie, Frances Leviston, Sarah Howe, Niall Campbell and Romalyn Ante.

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Summer 2021

Issue 99

The Summer 2021 issue of Poetry London, André Naffis-Sahely’s first issue as the magazine’s new editor, features poems by Anne Waldman, Claudia Rankine, Najwan Darwish, Iman Mersal, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Momtaza Mehri, Roseanne Watt and Seán Hewitt, as well as a previously uncollected poem by John Ashbery (1927–2017).

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