In the fantastic surroundings of Foyle’s new Auditorium at their flagship Charing Cross Road store, four poets gave London its first taste of the Next Generation Poets 2014 Tour. Customarily opening with a young poet yet to publish their first…
A restless energy ripples beneath the surface of Emma Jones’ first collection The Striped World, its tidal thematic thread carried by the ebb and flow of surprise and shifting instability. In examining the endless turmoil of the external world, with…
The poetic brilliance of Jen Hadfield’s second collection Nigh-No-Place is the beautiful explosion of sound, the shattering into shards of syllables which puncture the silence in symphonic performance. In ‘The Mandolin of May’, musical notes burst free from their chromatic…
The poetic brilliance of Jen Hadfield’s second collection Nigh-No-Place is the beautiful explosion of sound, the shattering into shards of syllables which puncture the silence in symphonic performance. In ‘The Mandolin of May’, musical notes burst free from their chromatic…
It was a treat to be hosted by Writing West Midlands and the Institute of Creative and Critical Writing at Birmingham City University on 18 November. Opening the show in their fabulous new Parkside Building was local poet Stephen Morrison-Burke,…
Twenty Exciting Voices for the Future
