This is the second in my mini-series on UK & Irish poetry magazines. The three featured today are all long-standing publications. Stand started up in 1954, when, according to the website, “Jon Silkin used his £5 redundancy money, received after trying to organise some of his fellow manual workers, to found a magazine which would ‘stand’Read more ⟶
Month: February 2021
On giving a poetry reading via Zoom
I’m very pleased to be taking part in an online reading this coming Friday 19th February at 1pm. Live Canon, the lovely publisher of my 2019 pamphlet Why? is hosting a series of weekly lunchtime readings, and this week it’s the turn of Adham Smart, Gillie Robic, Laura Theis and myself. I’ve only done twoRead more ⟶
On poetry magazines: Butcher’s Dog, Prole, Frogmore Papers
This is the first of a mini-series about print poetry magazines. Although I do my quarterly spreadsheet, there’s no room for any description of the mags, so I thought it would be nice to feature some of my favourites as a reader, where I like to submit myself and what I subscribe to. There areRead more ⟶