• The best recent poetry – poetry review
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
    Mouth by Mona Arshi; The Anchorage by Bernard O’Donoghue; Guaracara by Fawzia Muradali Kane; Bunting’s Honey by Moya Cannon; Old World by Robert Crawford; Joy Is My Middle Name by Sasha Debevec-McKenney Mouth by Mona Arshi (Chatto &...
  • Kae Tempest: Self Titled review – the rhythms in his lyrics are still so distinct
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
    (Island Records) Despair runs through the Londoner’s fifth album but, in what is essentially a love letter to the trans community, his home town and partner, a hard-won beauty breaks through On a track called Bless the Bold Future, Kae...
  • Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood invites us to laugh at ourselves – I wanted my music to do the same | Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
    Dylan Thomas’s evocative radio play has been adapted into films, a ballet, even a jazz suite. From its drunkards and nosey-parkers, to its ghosts and dreamers, Ninfea Crutwell-Reade’s new reimagining connects it back to its origins In...
  • Writing Australia: can the new national literature body make a real difference for authors? | Esther Anatolitis
    Monday, June 30, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
    Supporting writers is nation-building work, and expectations are high for the new body with its re-inaugurated poet laureate Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Writing Australia, Creative Australia’s new literature body,...
  • Poem of the week: Nest Box by Simon Armitage
    Monday, June 30, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
    A drunk old man’s report of sighting an angel opens on to much broader mysteries Nest Box When the drunken old fool saw the barn owl, Continue reading...
  • New prize for translated poetry aims to tap into boom for international-language writing
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
    Award, to be shared between poet and translator, is a joint project by three publishers and will give a $3,000 advance for a new collection A new poetry prize for collections translated into English is opening for entries next month....
  • Poem of the week: The Song of Arachnid by Gillian Allnutt
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
    A generous and warm ecofeminist vision of the labours of motherhood The Song of Arachnid Webs are small and spacious as simplicity, See-through as a summer’s day, old-fashioned as A slip of butter-muslin, girlhood’s own, or A cotton...
  • Angela Livingstone obituary
    Sunday, June 22, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
    My friend Angela Livingstone, who has died aged 90, was a translator and university teacher of literature known for playing a key role in making the most innovative works of 20th-century Russian literature accessible to the...
  • Hey aliens, here’s our new album! How do you follow up a 50-year-old record that’s hurtling through space?
    Friday, June 20, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
    The Golden Record – launched in 1977 on the Voyager space probes – contained everything from Chuck Berry to Chinese dialects and the sound of humpback whales. But what would we put on it today? It’s almost 50 years since one of the...
  • ‘History will judge us as cowards or heroes’: Ras Baraka, the mayor arrested by Ice, won’t be intimidated
    Monday, June 9, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
    The politician, who’s been labeled ‘too progressive, too Black’ in the race for New Jersey governor, reflects on Trump, immigration and the power of poetry It took about two minutes for Ras Baraka to be propelled from being a relatively...
  • Poem of the week: Hermes by Gabriele Tinti
    Monday, June 9, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
    A statue of the mythological father of poetry becomes an image of the declining authority of the art form Hermes by Gabriele Tinti What you were waiting for has gone. You are sad and unable to separate yourself Continue reading...
  • Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed review – the poetry, prose and passion of a Scottish modernist
    Friday, June 6, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
    Pitlochry Festival theatre Richard Baron and Ellie Zeegen’s play follows the writer from wide-eyed child discovering nature in rural Scotland to feisty care-home resident The title comes from a short story about two hikers on a camping...
  • The best books for children about refugees
    Friday, June 6, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
    Ahead of Refugee Week, we round up entertaining stories, poems and nonfiction to help children of all ages learn about refugees and gain understanding Want your kids to have a better understanding of people seeking sanctuary? Ahead of...
  • The best recent poetry – review roundup
    Friday, June 6, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
    Southernmost: Sonnets by Leo Boix; An Interesting Detail by Kimberly Campanello; Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon; Goonie by Michael Mullen; The Age of Olive Trees by Haia Mohammed Southernmost: Sonnets by Leo Boix (Chatto &...
  • British-Palestinian writer NS Nuseibeh wins Jhalak prose prize for writers of colour
    Wednesday, June 4, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
    ‘Timely’ essay collection explores identity, religion and colonialism as Nathanael Lessore takes children’s and young adult prize and Mimi Khalvati wins for poetry British-Palestinian writer NS Nuseibeh has won the Jhalak prose prize for...
  • Anthology Of Native Nations Poetry Is A 'Doorway,' Says Editor Joy Harjo
    Saturday, September 12, 2020 from Poetry
    U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo has authored numerous books of poetry, two children When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through collects the work of more than 160 poets. "A poem opens up time, it opens up memory, it opens up place," says Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate.
  • The Ax
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby John McAuliffe from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Revelations
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Suzi F. Garcia from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • A Future History
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Suzi F. Garcia from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • My Good Hand Plays God
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Yusef Komunyakaa from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • “ ... a ship crashes down ... ”
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Douglas Kearney from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Falling Dark at the Quarters
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Douglas Kearney from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • “Of Agricultural Work”
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Douglas Kearney from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Wolves
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Douglas Kearney from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Niqqud
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Dora Malech from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Lightkick! 2
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby John Kinsella and Thurston Moore from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Signal Jamming
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby John Kinsella and Thurston Moore from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Photo-finish
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby John Kinsella and Thurston Moore from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • next to nothing
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Priscilla Becker from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Disfigurations
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Rachael Boast from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Antonio Machado Listens to the Shadows of the Sunset in Long Island
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Fernando Valverde from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • The Balada of New England
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Fernando Valverde from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Edgar Allan Poe Is Reached at the Baltimore Harbor by the Shadows That Pursue Him
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Fernando Valverde from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Sacrament I
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Robin Gow from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Sacrament III
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Robin Gow from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Stay Safe
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Luther Hughes from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • σακοζ (shield)
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Matthew Minicucci from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • ακμων (anvil)
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Matthew Minicucci from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • My Own Private Patriarchy
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Jennifer Chang from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Murray Gell-Mann
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby John Koethe from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • The Jailbird
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Maurice Riordan from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Gazetteer of the Backyard (In Which Pedanius Dioscorides Takes Stock)
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Sylvia Legris from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • From “Team Photograph”
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Lauren Haldeman from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • The Final Episode
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Caroline Bird from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Breakbeat, Remezcla
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this letterby Willie Perdomo from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Superstition
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Ashley August from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • God of War
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Sergio Lima from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Reason Men Build Walls
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby féi hernandez from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • And
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Nicole Sealey from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
  • Indubitable
    Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
    Read this poemby Anthony Morales from the March 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
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