reviews

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...

A book cover for the collection of poems, Arrows Of Joy.

Cultural review of Muyiwa Adeola Babayomi’s collection of poems, ‘Arrows Of Joy’.

11/01/2023

Reviewer : Molara Woods. Muyiwa Adeola Babayomi’s Arrows of...

AKO Caine Prize announces 2022 shortlist

23/04/2022

The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, an annual...

‘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...