poetry

Analysing the mechanics of scansion and aesthetic distance in Akubo’s collection of poems, Sonnets For Motherhood – Salawu Olajide

21/08/2023

This collection of poems opens with trenchant themes that...

‘I am not there and I am not here’: a Palestinian American poet on bearing witness to atrocity

08/02/2023

For months, I’ve watched devastation from five thousand miles...

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2023 WINNERS

08/02/2023

The Forward Prizes for Poetry are the most influential...

Blood by Holly Pester

04/02/2023

In another poem significantly related to Blood, Pester plays...

Anthony Joseph wins TS Eliot prize for ‘luminous’ poetry collection

30/01/2023

Joseph takes £25,000 prize for Sonnets for Albert, which...

‘But the lake looks endless. / And my boat’s increasingly but a slowish swimmer.’ Photograph: EPA

Poem of the week: For Nothing Tender About It by Carl Phillips

08/02/2021

An enigmatic lyric reflects on the relationship of memory...

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A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London

22/02/2014

Never until the mankind makingBird beast and flowerFathering and...