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Poetry London buy now

Summer 11

Poems

Philip Gross

from Something Like The Sea

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

After the Earthquake • The Language of Doors

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

Vive la Résistance!

Mark Waldron

The Life-cycle of the Fly

Sasha Dugdale

Out of Town

Federico García Lorca

San Gabriel

Annie Katchinska

Tawpie • Kvass

Fiona Sampson

from The Illustrated Bestiary

Jamie McKendrick

First and Last • First and Last ‘He Digesteth Harde Yron’

Jamie McKendrick

King Billy’s Nemesis

Antonio Porchia

Voices

D Nurkse

Letter from Ivrea • The Island in Autumn

Martyn Crucefix

The little dances

Richard Meier

A hopeless gardener thanks his wife • Opening and closing of the double-glazed man

Nichola Deane

My Moriarty

Lan Lan

You Are • Newlywed • Will There Be a Tree

Jemma Borg

A Short Treatise on a Squid

Ian Cartland

Betrayal

Jane Draycott

Street View

Lia Brooks

Mouse Catcher in the Hay

Hélène Gelèns

corner time

Robert Saxton

The Doll’s House

Sinéad Morrissey

Imaginary Day-trip with My Mother to Craigavon

David Lehman

Ghost Story

Anne Stevenson

How It Is

Claire Malroux

from Poems for the Absent One

Reviews & Features

The Foreigner Within

W N Herbert on David Wheatley, Jane Duran, David Harsent and the search for home

Equal to the Moon

Jenny Lewis on Ruth Fainlight’s singular work.

Incarnations of the Wild

Sue Hubbard on poets David Morley, Les Murray and Lynne Hjelmgaard showing the world afresh

Adventures in Ventriloquism

Helen Mort on the difficulty of speaking the truth in collections by Martyn Crucefix, Jackie Kay and Craig Raine

Faithful or Free

D M Black on Peter Robinson’s Poetry and Translation and new translations by Marilyn Hacker and others

Wallflowers in the Spotlight

Kathryn Maris on retrospective collections from Matthew Sweeney and Anne-Marie Fyfe.

Clap Hands and Sing

Jane Holland has mixed feelings about first collections by Anna Woodford, Heidi Williamson and Katharine Towers.

Matters of Form

Ellen Cranitch on pamphlets, chapbooks and smaller collections by Claire Crowther and others.

Missing Figures

Todd Swift on the return to print of Bernard Spencer and ASJ Tessimond.