reviews

Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant’s Self-Portrait as Othello wins TS Eliot prize

19/01/2024

Judges praised the ‘imaginative capacity and technical flair’ of...

Pray to the empty wells by Iryna Shuvalova review – hope’s last stronghold

18/01/2024

The Ukrainian poet’s heart-stirring poems cling to dreams in...

BOOKS WEIGHTED AS A TOUR DE FORCE.

20/12/2023

Poetry Bad Diaspora Poems, Momtaza Mehri Jonathan Cape Winner of...

I Am Still with You by Emmanuel Iduma, Reviewed: Haunting Histories.

16/12/2023

I Am Still with You by Emmanuel Iduma, Reviewed:...

A Culinary Storyteller by Khanyisa Malabi

14/10/2023

Snippets: Khanyisa – A Culinary Storyteller by Khanyisa Malabi...

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...

Formless Existence.

26/07/2023

TITLE: FORMLESS EXISTENCE – Nkeiru Okeke. 1 Formless Existence ...

‘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...