Pennine Platform 94
60 pages of new poems, from the Pennines and beyond. Order yours today.
Jack Stewart reads ‘Rosaries’ (Issue 93)
Hilaire reads ‘Valse triste’ (Issue 93)
Pennine Platform on the Radio
Julia and recent contributors discuss how poems, and long-running poetry magazines, work. Our first two live broadcasts from Leeds’ dynamic…
A Free Verse first
After 51 years in print, Pennine Platform made its debut at the Poetry Society’s Free Verse Book Fair in London…
Behind the scenes
Regular readers will notice a slight difference in this issue: after ten contributions K E Smith is taking a break…
Issue 95
60 pages of new poems from the Pennines to the Antipodes. Order yours here.
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Our fourth live radio gig took place on Tuesday 30th January 2024. Join me and four Issue 94 contributors as…
Sarah Wimbush reads ‘Queen Coal’ (Issue 94)
David Harmer reads ‘Vanity’ (Issue 94)
Theresa Sowerby reads ‘Prague 1976’ (Issue 94)
Nick Pearson reads ‘The Supremes, San Francisco, 1966’ (Issue 94)
Stephanie Bowgett reads ‘I am in Highgate Cemetery with Mr Hogarth’ (Issue 94)
Trees as Inspiration (Issue 94)
As another ominous war fills our screens, and poets in safer places question their perhaps trivial obsession with words, politicians…
Martin Johns reads ‘Homecoming’ (Issue 93)
A. K. Davidson reads ‘Packaging’ (Issue 93)
Nothing Personal (Issue 93)
‘Embarrassment at being human,’ said Kay Ryan in The Yale Review (2004), ‘may be a deeper provocation to artistic production…
Emmaline O’Dowd reads ‘Dalhangari’ (Issue 92)
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