The Poetry Review

The Poetry Review, published quarterly by The Poetry Society, is home to the world’s best contemporary poetry and writing about poetry. Since first publication in 1912, it has featured new poems, essays and reviews by internationally renowned and emerging poets, both Nobel Prize winners and newcomers. Famous contributors include T.S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Derek Walcott, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay and Alice Oswald.

The trial issue, published Summer 2015, spans old and new trends: ‘Prufrock’ in its hundredth year, the hunt for new ways to ironise the self in Charles Whalley’s essay on post-internet poetry, and St Francis and Flaubert in D.A. Powell’s ‘Letter from San Francisco’. There are new poems by Nick Laird, Graham Mort, Daljit Nagra, Sara Peters, Jennifer L. Knox and the winner of the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, Zaffar Kunial. The review section includes new collections by Claudia Rankine, Sean O’Brien, Frances Leviston and Michael Hofmann’s selected essays. 

The new issue includes a thought -provoking ‘mutual reckoning’ between poets Jay Bernard and Jackqueline Frost; Joey Connolly ventures into the realm of AI; and Greta Stoddart, Chris McCabe and Denise Saul provide close readings of Auden, Swinburne and Lyn Hejinian respectively. A joint effort by Luke Kennard and Bohdan Piasecki kicks off the reviews, looking at Forward-prize winner Victoria Chang’s With My Back to the World, Nisha Ramayya’s Fantasia and Frank Kuppner’s Not a Moment Too Soon. The Review, as ever, not only presents an array of work by established poets such as Maura Dooley, Chen Chen and Rae Armantrout, but also highlights a host of emerging poets that you need to know about. Rachael Boast has curated a folio of poets exploring aspects of disability in their writing including Khando Langri, Aaron Kent and heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, among others. And the magazine features a gallery (and cover) by artist Shilpa Gupta detailing her ‘Jailed Poet’ series which memorialises poets punished or imprisoned by their governments.