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Poetry London buy now

Spring 12

Poems

Julia Copus

Ghost

Sam Riviere

Dream Poem • Personal Statement • The Clot

Ciaran Berry

Whitman, 1863

Jane Hirshfield

In My Wallet I Carry a Card • A Cottage Cheese Sandwich

Kim Moore

Suffragette

Michael Symmons Roberts

The Offset

Michael Symmons Roberts

The Others • Antarctica • On Grace • Derivatives • Face to Face

Emily Berry

Zanzibar

Kerry Hardie

Two Funerals

Sarah Kirsch

Trees

Sarah Kirsch

Angels

Amanda Dalton

Feral

Adam Day

A Plateau of Excellence

Fred D’Aguiar

Yesterday’s News

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

In My Arms

Peter Daniels

Being English

Greta Stoddart

The Curtain • And Here You Are • Neuroblastoma

Fran Lock

from The Mystic and the Pig Thief

Andrew Jamison

BALLS

Kathryn Simmonds

Self-Portrait with Washing-up Glove • The New Mothers

Leanne O’Sullivan

Argos • Valentine

Vicki Feaver

The Witches • Fur

Reviews & Features

Walking Around an Enigma

George Szirtes on Tomas Tranströmer, the latest Nobel Laureate

Removing the Labels

W N Herbert finds the real worth behind Luljeta Lleshanaku, Gjertrud Schnackenberg and Daljit Nagra

Truth and Dare: An Interview

Kathryn Maris talks to Christopher Reid on the publication of his Selected Poems about his willingness to ‘try anything’

Love Letters and Public Functions

Helen Mort on laureate poets: Duffy, Lochhead and Ryan

The Modernist Imperative

Peter Robinson on John Ashbery’s Rimbaud

Ingenious Devices

Jane Yeh on first collections by Nerys Williams, Will Eaves and Ahren Warner

Snow Burns, Tongues of Fire and the Hippo Chop

David Wheatley on Lavinia Greenlaw, Tim Liardet and Isobel Dixon

In Our Time and In Good Heart

Bernard O’Donoghue on John Burnside, Leontia Flynn and Justin Quinn as poets of our time

Self-consciousness or Simple Ceremony

Declan Ryan on pamphlets and shorter small press collections