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Leeds Stanza February 2025 choice : June Jordan 'Haruko/Love Poems' 'Haruko/Love Poems' by June Jordan The story of this book begins with...

The commission is an unusual beast, someone asks for a poem on a subject, the poet goes away and thinks about it and comes up with the...

18 December 2021 Here is 14 poetry things to do today! See these events and more featured on the Poetry News page. ​ 1) (From Eventbrite...

Today's reading: The Rialto no.95, pp46-064. (The Rialto 95 Completed.) The title comes from Michael Mackmin's introduction and using it...

A review of today's reading 'Memorial. An Excavation of the Iliad' by Alice Oswald pp 57-84 (end). Faber and Faber, 2011. I am in the...

A review of Reach Poetry issue 266 This is the first Reach Poetry magazine I have read, so in that sense I suppose this is a review of...

This is a review of: Launching MPT (Modern Poetry in Translation) 'Clean Hands: Focus on the Pandemic in Europe'. Go to the MPT YouTube...

(Quote form the magazine introduction.) Magma Poetry 78: 'Collaborations' 16 April 2021 pp 1-25, 17 April 2021 pp 26-41 & 69-72...

14 April 2021 'Contains Mild Peril' Fran Lock pp83-84. The final part of the book is given over to a single poem 'dead / sea', a ten part...

'Shakespeare For Every Day of the Year' edited by Allie Esiri MacMillan 2019 pp 146-159 So with the website to create and update, I had...

9th April 'Contains Mild Peril ' Fran Lock pp 76-82 Fran Lock's 'Contains Mild Peril'. Prior to starting the website I was reading this...

'Read Me A Poem a Day' 9th April 2021 'Read Me A Poem a Day for the National Year of Reading.' Chosen by Gaby Morgan, pp 278-283. OK so...