by Kate Birch | Mar 26, 2024 | News
Each year, we select our three submissions for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem from those winning and shortlisted poems from our Pick of the Month series that remain eligible. This year our choices are Eve Chancellor’s Two Girls on a Greyhound, The Sorry...
by Kate Birch | Mar 11, 2024 | News, Picks of the Month
Loss captured beautifully. This poem was absurd, gritty, weird, clever. It made people cry but had a humorous touch. Some felt it was about grief, some about getting old, others about being taken advantage of. And for all these reasons and more, ‘Burglaries’ by Darren...
by Kate Birch | Mar 6, 2024 | News
The Year of Return In 1962, 5th year of Ghana’s birth, 2 MP’s fail to assassinate President Kwame Nkrumah who shouts “Long live African independence!”, Kojo Besia stay in hiding, whilst Grandmother stands still, lengthy, sturdy. Beehive combed and poofy holding...
by Kate Birch | Feb 18, 2024 | News, Picks of the Month
‘It is so spare – every word used to the max – beautiful, slow, confident, visceral words. I love it!’ Yes, voters loved the spareness of it but also the way it played with the senses, the imagery, the ‘the s-s-s sounds in the poem as if...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 27, 2024 | News, Reviews
‘What’s real is us’ ‘Can any amount of words stop a thing from happening?’ A (white American) poet asks, positioning his words in opposition to his government’s war on Vietnam. Linton Kwesi Johnson (the dub poet and British Black Panther) when asked if...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 22, 2024 | News
Throughout the first two weeks of January, submissions were open for interpretations (and reinterpretations) of Ancient Greek myths. We received hundreds of submissions, exploring key heroes and heroines, events and lore around Greek myth and culture, with ancient...
