Jonathan Van-Tam has a way with metaphors. The Deputy Chief Medical Officer’s clear football analogies for tackling Covid-19 are a…
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Jonathan Van-Tam has a way with metaphors. The Deputy Chief Medical Officer’s clear football analogies for tackling Covid-19 are a…
In response to the hashtag started by Afghani women to protest against the custom that it is dishonourable to mention…
‘Poetry in school,’ said Simon Armitage this September, ‘is one of those few occasions when you can experience language for…
Issue 88 now available. New work by 32 poets, from the Pennines to Greece. Order yours today.
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…