“Sisters”: a poem by Grey Gowrie
i m Robert Lowell after Rimbaud The child, lousy, ridden with eczema and scabrous, red and restless most of…
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“Beatrice Webb refused to be a deb” – and other centenary clerihews
The satirist Craig Brown’s first published article appeared in the New Statesman in 1978. He fetes our centenary with choice…
By“Men Talking”: a new poem by Wendy Cope
Anecdotes and jokes, On and on and on. If you’re with several blokes, It’s anecdotes and jokes. If you were…
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Edward Thomas: Adlestrop, first published in the New Statesman in 1917
The poet and essayist Edward Thomas's well-loved poem was first published in the New Statesman in June 1917, shortly after his…
By“King Vulture”: a poem by Joe Dunthorne
He likes children, even these ones, full-bladdered, their uniforms rubbing static against the cage, failing to take seriously this fearful…
By“The Revenant”: a new poem by Fiona Sampson
Downhill . . . and I met myself, a pale ghost glimmering the way a poacher’s torch shines …
By2 September 1939: “Nerves“ by Sagittarius
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By“On the vanishing of my sister, aged 3, 1965”: a poem by John Burnside
They saw her last in our garden of stones and willows.A few bright twigs and pebbles glazed with rainand, here…
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