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 Spring 2026 issue of The Poetry Review (116:1) features a striking selection of new poetry from established and emerging poets alike, including Mark Waldron, Jason Allen-Paisant, Shane McCrae, Bobby Parker and Michael Chang. Editor Wayne Holloway-Smith is particularly excited to include two new poems from Mary Ruefle, one of his favourite poets. Our ‘Poets Reading Poets’ are Rishi Dastidar on Amy Key, Ellora Sutton on Joshua Jennifer Espinoza and Andrew McMillan on Geoff Hattersley. Will Harris contributes an essay on the complex relationship between Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger, while Jade Cuttle writes on nature poets of colour. Poets Bhanu Kapil and Dorothea Lasky contribute a dreamy epistolary conversation, and reviews include Kirsten Norrie and Tristram Fane Saunders on Luke Allen and Gregory Leadbetter; Clare Pollard on Ellora Sutton and Chelsey Minnis; and Oluwaseun Olayiwola on Richie Hofmann and Richard Siken. This issue also features the top-three winning poems from the National Poetry Competition 2025.