Friern Barnet Honours Young Poetry Star, Luke Kennard (so say Gists & Piths)

In an unprecedented move, planners at Friern Barnet Town Council have decided to rename a housing complex after one of Britain’s greatest young poets. At the age of 26, Luke Kennard was the youngest poet to be shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best [...]

Christina Rossetti in The Independent?s top ten poetry books

Judith Palmer, director of The Poetry Society chooses her ten best poetry books
Goblin Market and Other Poems ? Christina Rossetti
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"Dinosaurs, riots and avocados – poems from Forest Hill"

Chrissie Gittins? new poetry collection, I?ll Dress One Night As You, is published today. She spoke to Dulwich on View about her inspirations, writing in different formats, and living in south London. Read the interview
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Chrissie [...]

Richard Marggraf Turley at this year's Guardian Hay Festival

Hay Festival

Salt author Richard Marggraf Turley will be performing at this year’s Guardian Hay Festival, together with Seren poet Damian Walford Davies. Promoting their new poetry collections, Wan-Hu’s Flying Chair and Suit of Lights, the [...]

Tom Chivers in The Telegraph

Poets take up a new muse – modern technology

Tom Chivers is a 26-year-old poet living in East London who in recent years has found he wants to let technological advances in society influence his writing. His witty contributions to the poetic world are fresh, laugh-out-loud constructions about how technology affects our day-to-day lives.

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Jamey Dunham and Jared Stanley Out Now!

Just published, our two USA Crashaw Prize Winners

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Jamey DunhamThe Bible of Lost Pets

Jared Stanley Book Made of Forest

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Jamey Dunham – shooting baskets in dark basements

Where are you when you write your poems?

I write my poetry sprawled out on the floor of my family room between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m. I wait for the late hours when everyone else is asleep and my mind gets loopy. I think the left side of my brain (if [...]

Tom Chivers – an urban perspective

JOE DUNTHORNE INTERVIEWS TOM CHIVERS ABOUT HIS FIRST COLLECTION – HOW TO BUILD A CITY

Do you see yourself as writing from a particular tradition?

I was introduced to Barry MacSweeney by my Sixth Form tutor, Jonathan Ward. Barry gave his last ever reading at my school; he died about a week later.

For a while I [...]

Abi Curtis – hats, moustaches and a coral reef

Photo credit – Simon Curtis

WE ASKED ABI SOME QUESTIONS. SHE ANSWERED THEM. HERE THEY ARE.

Where are you when you write your poems?

I try to be somewhere in the top of my body.

My relationship to time changes if it?s going well. Time sits on a shelf somewhere and doesn?t bother me for while.

I think [...]

Introducing Jared Stanley….and his shoes

“THE BEAUTY OF HIS COOL FEET”

OK, Capitalism is probably done, at least for a while, so let?s be shallow this one last time! Salt?s crew has asked me to write about myself sort of above and beyond the book, the glamour, the dead trees, and the farts.

What?s left after all that? My favorite shoes, [...]