Constructions [Konstrukce]: Joshua Calladine-Jones, tall-lighthouse
This impressive debut pamphlet by Joshua Calladine-Jones features three sections that question the very roots of how we use language and proposes different ways of communication. This might entail making grammatical mistakes and the deconstruction and reconstruction of discourses as part of a creative practice as well as distortions of famous poems and alternative methods of translation that devia...
18th September 2021
Katrina Naomi's sea-swimming poem wins £1,000 Keats-Shelley prize
A poem about sea swimming by Katrina Naomi, ‘in the kelp forest’, has won this year’s £1,000 Keats-Shelley poetry prize. Katrina said the winning poem was part of a series “written in response to daily swims, over the last year. I love sea swimming, I go first thing in the morning. I used to be scar...
17th September 2021
Pow! New performance poetry night to be launched in London
A new performance poetry night is being launched next month in south-east London. POW! – Play on Words – will be staged at the Bridge House theatre, Penge, and will be organised and compered by Lee Ca...
15th September 2021
Growing Places: Polly Stretton, Black Pear Press
Chair of the OU Poetry Society, poet, coach and mentor Polly Stretton is the author of three previous full-length poetry collections, Girl’s Got Rhythm (2012), Chatterton (2014) and The Alchemy of ’42...
15th September 2021
Linda Gregerson and John McAuliffe to judge £2,000 Troubadour competition
Linda Gregerson and John McAuliffe will be judging the £2,000 Troubadour international poetry prize. The deadline is 27 September. More details
14th September 2021
Will Harris to judge £1,000 Oxford Brookes poetry competition
Will Harris will be judging the £1,000 Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre’s international poetry competition. The deadline is 20 September. More details
14th September 2021
'Veiled, he's mysterious as a bride'
What haunts this loose sonnet by Carrie Green is loss, anticipated loss, but loss, nonetheless. Yet, what emerges is an elegant “pre-elegy”. A tender anthem to a father and to the sweetness he represe...
14th September 2021
Marples Must Go!: Greg Freeman, Dempsey & Windle
Marples Must Go! was the slogan which protesters spray-painted on a motorway bridge near Luton, with reference to the controversial Minister of Transport Ernie Marples, who oversaw the closure of a hu...
10th September 2021
Paul Muldoon on bill at Winchester festival's live weekend
Paul Muldoon will be appearing at Winchester poetry festival’s three-day live event in early October, which marks the culmination of five months of online events, as well as the Poet on the High Stree...
7th September 2021
THROW OPEN THE DOORS! LIVE OPEN-MIC POETRY RETURNS TO VENUES
Live, open-mic poetry is back, in case you hadn’t noticed! All around the country local groups have been returning to venues they haven’t performed at since the first lockdown in March 2020. And new o...
7th September 2021
100 Poems to Save the Earth, eds. Zoë Brigley and Kristian Evans, Seren
The timing for the launch of this anthology could not have been better given the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the COP26 UN climate change conference to be held in G...
7th September 2021
'It takes three days to tow our brokenness across the state'
Jehanne Dubrow’s finely crafted sonnet, her own “simple machine”, reminds us so well of that moment, full of contradictory emotions, when the things we think are “unfailing”, fail us. She reflects on ...
6th September 2021
Cures: Jo Brandon, Valley Press
Jo Brandon has worked as a domestic for the Royal Household, and as a tour guide, as well as an administrator for the Poetry Society and the Poetry School. She is now a freelance poetry editor, libret...
2nd September 2021
