Finlay Worrallo reads ‘Voiced bilabial plosive’ (Issue 95)

A hand-tinted, mid-twentieth century photograph of Dorothea Kaloumenos, subject of the poem and the poet’s grandmother.

Konstandinos Mahoney reads ‘Dorothea’ (Issue 95)

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 … More

Jack Stewart reads ‘Rosaries’ (Issue 93)

Martin Johns reads ‘Homecoming’ (Issue 93)

A. K. Davidson reads ‘Packaging’ (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 … More

Nothing Personal (Issue 93)

‘Embarrassment at being human,’ said Kay Ryan in The Yale Review (2004), ‘may be a deeper provocation to artistic production … More

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 … More

Poetry and Empathy (Issue 83)

The epigraph on the cover of this magazine is “poetry on the page… speaking in your mind’s ear.” Some people … More