Yiewsley by Daljit Nagra (Faber, £14.99)Given the relish with which Nagra pushes and pulls at English, it’s worth noting that Yiewsley is a real west London suburb. This location allows him to... Read more »
A lost copy of a poem composed in the seventh century by a Northumbrian cattle herder – the earliest surviving poem in the English language – has been discovered in Rome. Scholars... Read more »
Evelyn Araluen has been shortlisted for the Stella prize for her second poetry collection The Rot, four years after she became the first ever poet to win the prize for Australian women... Read more »
Goyle, Chert, Mire by Jean Sprackland (Jonathan Cape, £13)The 45 unrhymed sonnets in Sprackland’s sixth collection coalesce into three spellbinding interwoven sequences. Set in the Blackdown Hills, a remote stretch between Somerset... Read more »
A poem about language, love, and processing distressing world events has won this year’s £5,000 National Poetry Competition. The Gathering by Partridge Boswell was picked from more than 21,000 entries by poets... Read more »
Evelyn Araluen has won both the $100,000 Victorian prize for literature and the $25,000 Indigenous writing category at this year’s Victorian premier’s literary awards, for her second poetry collection The Rot. Selected... Read more »
01.29 When we look up at stars on breakwe see only stars behindthe exhaled Milky Wayof Bobby’s Golden Virginia,ways to navigate shift patterns,nothing seismic or anything approachingtruth; for us stars mean only... Read more »
Afterburn by Blake Morrison (Chatto & Windus, £12.99)Best known as a memoirist, Morrison returns to poetry after 11 years with a masterclass of lyric distillation and charged observation, demonstrating that nothing is... Read more »
The Secret Day My yesterday has gone, has gone and left me tired,And now tomorrow comes and beats upon the door;So I have built To-day, the day that I desired,Lest joy come... Read more »