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  • Review of ‘Every Little Sound’ by Ruby Robinson

    Review of ‘Every Little Sound’ by Ruby Robinson

    Reading Ruby Robinson’s debut collection Every Little Sound (Liverpool University Press, 2016) in the early days of the EU Referendum result, my ears were still ringing with one of the Leave campaign’s key slogans: “Take back Control,” an imperative phrase masquerading as a promise of freedom, and a reminder of the power dynamics at work in… Read more

  • Gareth Lewis

    Gareth Lewis

    I am extremely sad that Gareth Lewis, editor/publisher at the tall-lighthouse, the independent small press that published my pamphlet The Misplaced House, has died at the age of 41.  We only met once, at the London launch of my pamphlet, but we corresponded regularly via email, particularly while we were editing my manuscript.  I was so grateful to… Read more

  • Winchester Poetry Prize: Send in your poems!

    Winchester Poetry Prize: Send in your poems!

    The deadline for the competition is midnight on Sunday, 31 July so you have just under three weeks to send in your poems.  This is a fantastic opportunity to win a generous cash prize, read at a special prize-giving event at Winchester Poetry Festival on Sunday 9 October 2016, and be published in a competition anthology to… Read more

  • ‘You say drone’ featured at Lifesaving Poems

    ‘You say drone’ featured at Lifesaving Poems

    Anthony Wilson has written about my poem ‘You say drone’ from my pamphlet The Misplaced House in his Lifesaving Poems feature. I first read You say “drone” on the Poems in Which website, Issue 4 (2013). What struck me then, and still amazes me now, is its controlled fury while retaining its central identity as a made… Read more

  • Do not mock the Leavers. Find the Remainers.

    Do not mock the Leavers. Find the Remainers.

    What a week.  My daughter turned 17 on Thursday, 23rd June, so was too young by one year to be eligible to vote in the EU Referendum.  Early on Friday morning I found her in tears, reading online news sites and trying to absorb the reality of a Leave vote. If she had been allowed… Read more

  • Emily Blewitt’s poem at And Other Poems Highly Commended in this year’s Forward Prizes

    Emily Blewitt’s poem at And Other Poems Highly Commended in this year’s Forward Prizes

    I’m very happy to say that Emily Blewitt‘s prose poem This Is Not a Rescue, first published at  And Other Poems (the poetry site I edit), has been Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry and will be published this autumn in The Forward Book of Poetry 2017.  Huge congratulations to Emily whose debut collection will be… Read more