The theory of Ethiopian exceptionalism goes both ways. The ancient recluse Christian kingdom with its liturgical Ge’ez script, whose...

The Dog won Best Magazine in the Saboteur Awards 2022. Massive thank you to everyone who voted and to all our team who work tirelessly to...

Kathleen Bainbridge has lived a long and various life, one might say many lives, so it’s surprising that she’s never had a publication...

Review of Unruled Journal, by Anne Ryland Valley Press, 2021 £10.99 Like Ryland’s previous two collections, Unruled Journal is a delight....

Trigger warning: descriptions of rape and brutality. Jenny Mitchell’s powerful first collection Her Lost Language draws elegiacally on...

Scottish poet Morag Anderson’s debut pamphlet, Sin Is Due To Open In A Room Above Kitty’s (Fly On The Wall Press), is a tour de force of...

There’s a special place in my heart for out-of-context edits. The title of this blog is one of the last I scribbled to myself before...

Simon: Tell us about your journey into poetry. Jack: I started reading poetry when I was about fourteen or fifteen but I didn't start...

Heart-rending and at times deliciously humorous, Alison Binney’s 2020 Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Competition winner: Other Women’s Kitchens...

The Sylvia Plath Prize Love Sylvia? Love writing poetry? Why not write a poem inspired by the themes Plath was drawn to in her work? You...

I started writing poetry relatively young but stopped in my early twenties after a trauma. I didn’t put pen to paper again until I was...

Mícheál McCann’s debut pamphlet Safe Home is one that speaks to transition. Its title is a popular Irish salutation, one that...

What do you publish? The Dog House Review publishes non-fiction prose in response to poetry. We share well-considered, probing and...