Roy McFarlane, The Healing Next Time (Nine Arches Press, £9.99) Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin, £9.99) By the time this review is published, it’s …
‘I was one burnt daughter in a genealogy’: Sarah Cave on three collections that offer new, feminist forms of disruption
Rachael Allen, Kingdomland (Faber, £10.99) Sophie Robinson, Rabbit (Boiler House Press, £10) A K Blakemore, Fondue (Offord Road Books, £10) Rachael Allen’s Kingdomland is a dream sequence, nightmarish and visionary, replete with …
Material Lacquer: Chelsey Minnis talks to Amy Key
I was in the Swiss mountain village of Grindelwald in August of 2018 when I opened my Twitter app and saw that the US poet Chelsey Minnis would be giving …
Lost Poets: David Wheatley on canons, exclusions and the quicksand of oblivion
What is your favourite lost poem? There’s a lot of material (not) out there to choose from, from the lost plays of Aeschylus to the discarded hospital poems of Anne …
The Catalogue of Errors by Helen Mort
not that you fall headlong through the spoilt floorboards of your house drop through layers of darkness ground floor, basement, lower ground slowing, opening steady as a lift not that …
Beggars of Life by Denise Riley
The movie is over, yet the screening reels on through your eyes – you’ve left the cinema, but you’re still seeing ‘in’ graceful Ozu, or ‘in’ kindly Kore-Eda, or in …
The Swords by Abigail Parry
Nine shafts in steely fluency, between the headboard and the wall grey-blue like ice or gunships brute and serious a face between cupped hands and all the saints polite as …
Editorial: Dead Ringers
Who Is The Poet? Emily Dickinson referred to herself as a ‘supposed person’. In Negotiating with the Dead Margaret Atwood describes her own ‘slippery double’ as a kind of secret agent, different …
