The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee and Nutshell by Ian McEwan
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire”: you could say that this Yeatsian…
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Some suggest that science fiction is a woman’s genre. In its purest form, sci-fi reimagines the structures of society and,…
The Met Office Advises Caution by Rebecca Watts
As its title suggests, Rebecca Watts’s new collection seeks to reinvent nature poetry for the 21st Century: a tradition most…
An interview with Gwilym Jones
There’s something about the unpredictability of a storm that arouses excitement and chaos in a reader, writer, or just your…
The Red and Yellow Nothing by Jay Bernard
It is difficult to put a finger on the immediate aftermath of reading The Red and Yellow Nothing: there is…
The Sleepwalkers by Will Stone
Europe is a wasteland in Will Stone’s third collection The Sleepwalkers. The poet portrays the continent as ‘What’s left of…
Shining Shoes by Nausheen Eusuf
Weekends, growing up, I’d watch my father as he sat on a low stool in the veranda surrounded by half…
The Blind Roadmaker by Ian Duhig
In his latest eclectic collection of poems, Ian Duhig sings (and dances) for those marginalised in poetry and forgotten by…
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
‘The whole challenge of poetry’, Alice Oswald once wrote, ‘is to keep language open, so that what we don’t yet…
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