Judges announced for Sarah Maguire Prize 2022

 Following the success of the inaugural Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation, the Poetry  Translation Centre is delighted to … More

Live Canon Poetry Prize Book Launch and Readings

I’m pleased to say that my poem ‘A Baby Speaks on his Birthday in an Autumn Garden, 2020’ has reached … More

My review of a new selection of poems by Abdellatif Laâbi

My review of My Mother’s Language/La langue de ma mère by Abdellatif Laâbi, translated and introduced by André Naffis-Sahely (Poetry Translation … More

Richard Price’s poem, first published at And Other Poems, commended in the Forward Prizes

I’m delighted that one of the poems first published at And Other Poems, the online site I edit, has been … More

January 2021 at And Other Poems

Jessica Mookherjee began the new year at And Other Poems with two poems offering glimpses of the end of the … More

December 2020 at And Other Poems

I opened submissions at my poetry site And Other Poems in November, after a break of 20 months.  Over 700 … More

Interview with Children’s Poet Shauna Darling Robertson

  Hi Shauna, and congratulations on the publication of your first book-length collection for children, Saturdays at the Imaginarium (Troika … More

November 2020 at And Other Poems

The subtitle of this post could be “Hold your phone sideways” since this is the best way to read poems … More

Sequence of nine prose poems/collages

I’ve written about my sequence ‘Once Upon a Lockdown’ before but this is the first time I’ve been able to … More

I have forgotten your fingertips

This is the first creative piece I’ve made for my Time to Write commission from Paper Nations which I wrote … More