from Smashing Time by Marcus Slease

from Smashing Time is a rejection of the ‘windy city’ with its flatulent promises, and its pretentious flirtations with marginal poetics and counter-culture

Confer by Ahren Warner

Warner’s is a book steeped in allusion, unabashedly erudite and seamlessly multilingual

A Twitter Poetry Experiment

One evening during the recent snow falls in London, I decided to take the opportunity for a bit of shameless self-promotion and tweet out, verse by verse, one of the poems from my collection Napoleon’s Travelling Bookshelf. I’d never tweeted any of my poetry before and I was curious to see whether a band-waggoning hashtag [...]

Close Reading: 6:30AM by Andrew McMillan

This poem is short enough to quote in full (assuming the editors don’t mind). sleep had been singular so long that   on waking next to him I felt like the submariner resurfacing amazed to find the world survived with so much air such tundra of sky With its spareness, the absence of punctuation and that [...]

Model Publisher or Pirate? R. A. Caton and the Fortune Press

RA (Reginald) Caton’s legacy is ambiguous at best. He published the debuts of Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Cecil Day Lewis as well as books by Dylan Thomas, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and many others. Some of the editions published by the Fortune Press between 1924 and 1971 can fetch upwards of £5,000 today and Caton [...]