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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...