Reading the 2015 T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist

Poetry from Claudia Rankine, Mark Doty, Les Murray, Sarah Howe, and more.

The Ongoing Menace

Toby Martinez de las Rivas is the first poet to rise to Geoffrey Hill’s manifold challenges.

The New Wave of Sad Pizzazz: Three British Poets

Twentieth-century British poetry had many virtues, but it was not overburdened with a sense of style.

BBP13

Ahren Warner strikes a seductive compact between the older and younger camps of British poetry.

My Ambition, the Rival

(Most) Everyone’s Invited

Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets, 

New Translation

Degrees of Sight

Rain: Poems by Don Paterson

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