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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…
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)
Cathy Grindrod reads ‘Curtain Call’ (Issue 92)
Philip Burton reads ‘The Aberdovey Bell in Springtime’ (Issue 92)
Matthew Paul reads ‘Smallpiece’ (Issue 92)
A Laureate’s Lot (Issue 92)
When the late Hilary Mantel finished her Wolf Hall trilogy, ending a twelve-year relationship with Thomas Cromwell – and, at…
Rosie Jackson reads ‘Like Jean Shrimpton’ (Issue 91)
Char March reads ‘Dislocating the Moon’ (Issue 91)
Poets versus Dictators (Issue 91)
The daily norms which two years ago most people took for granted have mutated yet again. Most starkly for Ukrainians…
D A Prince reads ‘Artist’s impression’ (Issue 90)
Natural-Sounding Speech (Issue 90)
What is natural-sounding speech, and why is it so valued? Raymond Williams’ discussion of ‘nature’ in his Keywords was fraught…
Regina Weinert reads ‘Helping you decide’ (Issue 90)
Jean Stevens reads ‘Pye Black Box’ (Issue 90)
Mike Lewis-Beck reads ‘Fear of Flying’s’ (Issue 90)
Juliet Fossey reads ‘Visiting the Poet’ (Issue 89)
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