Under Their Sweaty Wings by Fred Voss I have had many fathers between tin wallsonewho told me to lay a crescent wrench across the jaws of a... Continue reading
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What is History, Discuss? “History is and was and so is that patch/ of pavement” begins ‘What is History, Discuss?’, the poem that opens Whatsname Street (Smokestack... Continue reading
3 poems from ‘Nadir’ by Laura Fusco translated by Caroline Maldonado: The following poems are taken from a forthcoming collection, Nadir by Laura Fusco, the sequel to... Continue reading
Alun Rees reviews Sex on Toast, Selected Poems by Tôpher Mills (Parthian, £10) What to say of this astonishment of a book? How to encapsulate it in... Continue reading
Thomas Kinsella has died, aged 93. He must be counted among the great Irish poets of the 20th and 21st centuries. He was very involved in uncovering... Continue reading
The Poem by Niels Hav, translated by Heather Spears Don’t you put the poemin a headlock – You are under arrest! The poem won’t obey orders. The... Continue reading
Britain in 2021after Shelley’s ‘England in 1819’ by Rip Bulkeley An old, bad, foolish and decaying state,Riddled with racism from empire’s core;Maltreated refugees, war’s graduates,Drowning to reach... Continue reading
Tidings by David Betteridge For Ken Robson, shepherd, of Stanhope Farm in Tweeddale, with whom the author worked two lambing seasons, in 1964 and 1965. In his... Continue reading
Near-Neebours by Jim Mainland See yun whit’s-is-name,Jacob Rees Morgue?Weel, him.Wha does he pit dee a mind o?Lang face, sleekit doon hair?Stick a toothbrush tache on da upper... Continue reading
[Herd Immunity] by J. P. Seabright containment camps keep us safe protect from wind rain assets corrugated hangar small pens metal... Continue reading
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