Poetry London buy now

Spring 10

Poems

C K Williams

Jew On Bridge

Clare Pollard

Waiting for the Kettle to Boil, Lancashire

Penelope Shuttle

Sandgrain and Hourglass Song

Sam Gardiner

Other Love Essay, Waiter!

Swithun Cooper

Blood and the Neighbours

Joe Dunthorne

Intelligent Animals, On Losing Your Memory

Paula Bohince

Pussy Willow

Paula Bohince

Evening Walk, Night Vision

Francisco Hernández

The Degradation of Spring

Leontia Flynn

The Pin-Hole Camera, Mellaril

Leontia Flynn

My Father’s Language

Ben Holden

Rain • Raver

Anja König

Darwin at the Car Museum

Fleur Adcock

Having Sex with the Dead, The Anaesthetist

Mick Wood

Cushing

Marie-Claire Bancquart

Transmutations

Abdulkareem Kasid

The Shroud, The Second Mourning

Susan Wicks

Black Dog

Patrick McGuinness

The Empty Frame • Blue

Gerald Dawe

Shortcuts

Denise Saul

The Bride Stripped Bare

Alan Brownjohn

A Deselection

W N Herbert

A Jesus of the Moon

W N Herbert

Stookie, Worn to the Bone, You Find This, Inscribed Thereon

Jo Shapcott

Somewhat Unravelled

Reviews & Features

A Church of Oranges and Flies

Helen Mort on Selima Hill and ‘the female poem’

Showing not Telling

Sue Hubbard finds what slips between languages in collections by Gillian Clarke, Valérie Rouzeau and Ciaran Carson

Not ‘Making it New’

Claire Crowther on the strength and profundity of Ruth Stone and Samuel Menashe

Catering to the Perfumed Cannibal

Todd Swift looks for the atrocious in Luke Kennard and Frederick Seidel

Approaching Simplicity

W N Herbert on Billy Collins, Vona Groarke and Don Paterson’s radically different methods of achieving freshness

The Rich Margins

Tom Chivers on visionary lyric and the language of labour in the poetry of Thomas A Clark, Fred Voss and Tom Leonard

Singular Selves

Fred D’Aguiar on the public and private worlds of Imtiaz Dharker, Chris McCully and Robert Sheppard

Sleep and Weather

Julia Bird explores new collections by Abi Curtis, Richard Price, Todd Swift and Hugo Williams

Points of Arrival

Philip Gross assesses the young guard in new anthologies and pamphlets
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