In Bloom – Bernard O’Donoghue’s The Anchorage
Reading Bernard O’Donoghue’s Farmers Cross in 2012, it was the poem ‘Vocation’ that caught my eye. The speaker considers a …
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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 …
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 …
Instagram for the soul – Sam Willetts’ New Light for the Old Dark
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Robin Redbreast There was always something cringeworthy about family snaps. As Philip Larkin says in Lines…
Jane Yeh’s The Ninjas
Wandering Stirling Castle this summer, I kept my camera(phone) holstered. In a baronial hall, holidaymakers queued to pose in a high-backed-chair-cum …
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