Latest edition of Pennine Platform is now available. Sixty pages of wonderful poetry including the late Thomas Ország-Land plus David Sapp, Ian Clarke, John Arnold, Clive Donovan, Chris Bridge, Philip Foster, George Horsman, Stuart Handysides, Émile Nelligan, Simon Currie, Phil Vernon, Melinda Lovell, ...
GRAFT POETRY EVENT Ilkley Manor House, 24 June 2018, 2.00pm – 4.30pm £3 on the door Graft Poetry, is celebrating ten years of international poetry publishing. In June 2018 five Graft poets will read from their latest collections. Jefferson Holdridge, The ...
Latest Pennine Platform now available to buy online.
New collections from Pauline Kirk & Andy Boobier.
I am sad to have to record the death of Thomas Ország-Land, a frequent and valued contributor to this magazine. Indeed, his poem dedicated to his son, David, in the last issue (No.82, re-printed below), although I did not realised it at the time, could stand as a final valediction. A Hungarian, moving between London ...
The epigraph on the cover of this magazine is “poetry on the page… speaking in your mind’s ear.” Some people are quite clear that they hear internally what they are reading, while others (usually those who read for functional purposes only) don’t recognise this experience (it is thought, because they don’t pay attention to it). ...
Pauline Kirk & Andy Boobier will be reading from their latest Graft collections at York Explore, 7 March 18.30-19.45. This is a FREE EVENT! Why not come along and support live poetry from two wonderful Pennine Poets! For more details visit York Explore’s Facebook page.
We live in an age of human rights – it seems, sometimes, as if everybody is trumping common sense by claiming a human right. For example, claiming rights to a family life trumps public safety in many cases of deportation. However, it’s not all negative. Stephen Pinker cites the ‘human rights revolution’ as one of ...
Auden said, ”Poetry makes nothing happen.” In contrast, Shelley said, “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” – which sounds rather an excessive, if not bombastic, claim! Certainly, it’s sometimes hard to see how a little poetry magazine can make anything happen except satisfy the reclusive vanity of the editor and the poets. But ...
Fifty-eight pages of wonderful poetry packed into the latest edition of Pennine Platform. Poems from John Arnold, Nicholas Bielby, Ian Clarke, Robert Cockcroft, Tony Cosier, Peter Day, Julia Deakin, Clive Donovan, Philip Foster, Ray Givans, Jim Greenhalf, Stuart Handysides, Kevin Hanson, David Page, David Sapp, Gordon Scans, Gillian Stoneham, Bob Tristram and Josie Walsh. Read ...
Whether in newspapers, in gossip, in history, in novels, drama, films, legends, fairy tales or myths, we understand ourselves and the world we live in by telling ourselves stories. It is through such stories that we transmit our culture and social mores from one generation to the next. Language is our primary socialised way of ...
