Poetry ‘forged from survival’: Max Wallis’s Aftershock Review
A poet from the north-west has launched a poetry magazine which says it is composed of “literature forged from survival - poems shaped by psychosis, PTSD, cancer, addiction, injustice, and the griefs that leave lasting marks. But crisis is not our only mode. This issue also celebrates queer love, tenderness, defiance, and reinvention.”
Editor Max Wallis, whose early poems appeared on Write Out ...
30th August 2025
BSL poets shortlisted among contenders for Forward prizes
Raymond Antrobus and Zoë McWhinney have been shortlisted in the performance poem category for the 2025 Forward prizes, in the first year the prize has been open to poems performed in British Sign Language.
Juana Adcock (I Sugar the Bones), Leo Boix (Southernmost: Sonnets), Niall Campbell (The Isl...
16th August 2025
Poet Alice Oswald arrested at Palestine Action protest
The award-winning poet Alice Oswald, a former Oxford professor of poetry, was among more than 500 people arrested during the latest protest in London on Saturday over the proscribing of the group Pale...
10th August 2025
