“Bar Story”: a new poem by James Conor Patterson
That night he takes the freight ferry from Heysham to Warrenpoint and stands by the railing of the upper car-deck…
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“Words”: a poem by Patrick Daly
*** Patrick Daly lives in California. His work has been published in the New York Times and his chapbook Playing…
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“A reading in New York“: a new poem by Claire Potter
Sometimes listening closely to sirens in London, the context changes into a warm New York evening where the sash windows have…
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Harriet Harman would make a rotten barman – and other general election clerihews
Craig Brown finds rhymes for Guru-Murthy and Rees-Mogg.
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“Designer at the Cafe”: a new poem from Paula Bohince
Squat and plummy, in small round spectacles, it’s easy to see him young, a piggy, teased for his odd body,…
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“Nina Kogan’s Geometrical Heaven”: a new poem by Clive James
Two of her little pictures grace my walls: Suprematism in a special sense, With all the usual bits and pieces…
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Guillaume Apollinaire to Sarojini Naidu: the war poets you don’t study at school
Despite the “cosmopolitan sympathies” of the poets, memorial events in the UK today are dominated by British writers. But there…
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Behind each window is a tableau like in an advent calendar – or a vitrine – where each room extends…
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