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Issue 88 now available. New work by 32 poets, from the Pennines to Greece. Order yours today.
‘Poetry in school,’ said Simon Armitage this September, ‘is one of those few occasions when you can experience language for…
It is in the end as if the morning light streamed through him where he sits at the half-open window,…
There is still grandeur; the curve of stone steps, the long, lazy windows overlooking the street where hens peck at…
Does the ploughman, reaching the east of his furrow, lift up the plough and return it to the west to…
At some stage in their careers most serious poets attend writing workshops. These events differ widely. Some are closed shops;…
Issue 87 now available. 56 new poems by 32 poets, from the Pennines to Australia. Order yours today.
Hear Pennine Platform on the radio! Editor Julia Deakin and a selection of poets from issue No. 85 demonstrate what…
Pulex irritans I am the n times great-grandson of the flea that famously bit John Donne. Crushed to death by…
Timeline The Sign Language teacher explains where I should place my hands; to show past, present and future tense: the…
My Deafness, My Mother’s Deafness, My Grandad’s Deafness Was felt inside that P.E. bag my mum stitched from old curtains.…
The Polish Princess who became Queen of Sweden Catherine Jagiellon (1526-1583) Think of an entourage of fifty-nine: three Catholic priests,…
Pennine Platform No. 86. Sixty pages of scintillating new work from the Pennines and far beyond. Fleur Adcock, John Duffy,…
More elegies landed on our desk this September than in February. Even dialect poems seemed both to celebrate language and…
