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Essays, interviews, reviews and notebooks from the world of independent poetry.
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27 totalNotebook19 Dec
On keeping a commonplace book
Why every poet should keep a magpie’s notebook of stolen lines, overheard speech and odd facts.
Feature5 Dec
Small presses, big year
How a handful of independent publishers quietly produced some of the year’s best books.
Long read21 Nov
The anthology question
Who gets gathered, who gets left out, and what an anthology says about the moment that made it.
News7 Nov
The Autumn 2025 Showcase is live
Read this season’s selected poems online, free, with audio recordings from every poet.
Workshop12 Dec
Workshop: Writing the elegy
A gentle, careful session on writing grief — held over two evenings in the new year.
Interview28 Nov
Catrin Lowry on rivers, maps and memory
The poet talks about place, water, and the long sequence at the heart of her new pamphlet.
Feature14 Nov
The poem as object: type, paper, ink
On the physical life of a poem — how a page is set, folded and bound, and why it matters.
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