The gristle grey which runs through Here Comes the Night by Alan Gillis, presents a new perspective to poetic beauty in proof that poetry can be practically anywhere. In one poem, we dance with the dusted lilacs growing among windblown…
After Oxford on Tuesday, the Next Generation Poets 2014 Tour rolled across to Cambridge for an event in Waterstones, Sidney Street. Opening the evening, Cambridge Literature lecturer, Sarah Howe, showed why Chatto & Windus are publishing her debut collection, Loop…
We’re delighted to see Next Generation Poet 2014, Helen Mort, has won this year’s Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for her collection Division Street (Chatto & Windus). One of the most significant and long-established poetry awards in the UK was…
Opening the show in Oxford’s Blackwells store was former President of Oxford University’s Poetry Society, Rachel Piercey. Now Poetry Editor at the Cadaverine magazine and small publisher, The Emma Press, Rachel read poems from her most recent pamphlet, Rivers Wanted.…
The third consecutive night of Next Generation Poets 2014 tour events saw Mark Waldron and Rebecca Goss read as part of Sheffield’s Off the Shelf Festival of Words on 29 October. The show was opened by local poet Ben Wilkinson,…
On Tuesday 28 October, the University of Liverpool’s School of English graciously hosted a Next Generation Poets 2014 tour event in the stunning new surroundings of their School of the Arts Library on Abercromby Square. Opening the show was new…
Annie Freud’s voice is so strong on the page you can almost hear it. These poems are frank, candid. In “Pheasant,” she relishes the preparation of road-kill: ‘I…pull out her guts,/her lungs, her heart and pearly eggs…/ Daughter of painters…
The Broken Word presents scenes we don’t expect to find in poetry. Dramatising shameful events in our colonial history, Adam Foulds’s novel-in-verse places us among British reactions to the Mau Mau rebellion in 1950s Kenya. We see events through the…
For centuries bees have appeared in poems but Borodale’s subject is not only bees but also the work of their keeper. Bee Journal records the lived experiences of a novice apiarist, eager to succeed but facing many challenges along the…
Running through this collection we find episodes in the story of a long-distance relationship. The title poem is addressed to the absent lover: ‘…You know perfectly well I believe/nothing worthwhile is explainable. Dear boy,/don’t be so literal…/… we can make…
Twenty Exciting Voices for the Future
