Books Modern poetry’s sentimentality problem Many years ago I found myself unable to avoid talking, on a semi-regular basis for a period of 48 months, to a young man who worked… By Paul Batchelor
Culture The fresh voices of poets Hannah Sullivan and Danez Smith: two audacious formalists By Paul Batchelor
Books Loaded with ore: poets Ishion Hutchinson and Leontia Flynn grapple with history, heritage and literary tradition By Paul Batchelor
Culture Tara Bergin’s poetry is a perfect guide to these frightened, frightening times By Paul Batchelor
Ocean Vuong’s poetry brims with precise, surreal and erotic imagery Paul Batchelor reviews his Night Sky with Exit Wounds, plus new works from Adam O’Riordan and Colette Bryce. By Paul Batchelor
Quoting psychoanalysts – and other innovative ways of coming up with lines of poetry Three new collections of poetry – by Emily Berry, Jacob Polley and Luke Kennard – test the limits of the lyric and… By Paul Batchelor
Hide and Seek: New poetry by Rowan Williams, Liz Berry and Vona Groarke Three sophisticated collections explore the paradox of poetry. By Paul Batchelor
Style over substance: three poets’ attempts to master their form However long a poet struggles to establish a style that answers the questions of form, voice, tone or subject… By Paul Batchelor
Spelling it out: Kleinzahler’s “Hotel Oneira” and Collins’s “Aimless Love” Collins and the New Jersey-born August Kleinzahler grew up on opposite sides of the Hudson River but the gulf… By Paul Batchelor