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.

Latest issue

• New poems by Luke Kennard, Fiona Benson, Leontia Flynn, Akpa Arinzechukwu, John McCullough, Fawzia Muradali Kane, Katharine Towers, Samar Diab, Rainie Oet, Lucy Mercer, Kimberly Reyes, Tim Liardet and many more.



• Prose contributors include Valzhyna Mort on the Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik, Jane Feaver on John Clare’s poem ‘I am’ in the time of Covid-19, and Nerys Williams on the radio poems of Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath.



• In reviews, we survey new collections by Claudia Rankine, Peter Gizzi, Rachel Long and Pushkin and many others.