Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors: Tamar Yoseloff’s A Formula For Night: New and Selected Poems
Damien Hirst, ‘For the Love of God’, 2007, platinum, diamonds and human teeth, 171, 127, 190 mm (photo credit: Ilona Gaynor) …
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Loneliness is a gun – Todd Swift’s The Ministry of Emergency Situations: Selected Poems
Loneliness is a gun The loudest silence in your day dying to meet you The cassettes my dad collected with …
Chrissie Gittins’ Professor Heger’s Daughter
When the British Library published Love Letters: 2000 Years of Romance in 2012, national attention was drawn to 4 letters written …
Tim Liardet’s The World Before Snow
My review of Tim Liardet’s T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed The World Before Snow is up on The Poetry Book Society’s Poetry Portal. Buy …
Another Brick in the Wall: David Harker’s and Tamar Yoseloff’s Nowheres
Even today, an assault on the defensive ditches surrounding Maiden Castle would be challenging, their presence serving as a reminder of our …
Claire Trévien’s and Gareth Prior’s Other Countries: Contemporary Poets Rewiring History
In the anthology’s introduction, Trévien writes that ‘we wanted poems that would make us create new patterns of association in …
Olivia Byard’s The Wilding Eye: New and Selected Poems
Seeing a swan holed below the waterline by a crossbow bolt on my stretch of river, I ran for the phone. …
Devil’s Haircut: Carmina Masoliver’s Nasty Little Intro #8
Sainsbury’s can sell your daughter a beautician’s outfit but not a lab coat and stethoscope. Although I’d always known that …
Theatre of Blood – Chris McCabe’s Speculatrix
Oxford’s Golden Cross is a Pizza Express now but the interior decor points to its Tudor pedigree. Outside, the square …
Jo Field’s The Anglesey Leg
Watching the Sky journalist, Colin Brazier, picking through a suitcase at the crime scene / crash site of Malaysia Airlines …
Poor Rude Lines 