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 Autumn 2025 issue of The Poetry Review features a remarkable selection of new work from Mary Jean Chan, Matthew Dickman, Safia Elhillo, Harrison Hamm, Hannah Lowe, Julian Stannard, Joelle Taylor and Claudine Toutoungi, among many others. Our ‘Poets reading Poets’ this issue are Victoria Kennefick on Rebecca Hoogs, D.A. Powell on Essex Hemphill and Sarah Howe on Ed Bok Lee. Forrest Gander and Oluwaseun Olayiwola discuss masculinity, syntax and ‘operatic intersubjectivity’, and Safa Khatib pens a heartfelt letter to Venezuelan writer and poet Esdras Parra. 

Reviews include Lola Olufemi on Grace Nissan and Karenjit Sandhu; Rowland Bagnall on Vona Groarke and Olivia McCannon; Joey Connelly and Brenda Hillman on Hal Coase and Susan McCabe; Esther Heller on Nick Makoha and Kate Zambreno and dove / Chris Kirubi; and Godelieve de Bree on a selection of recent pamphlets. The cover and gallery highlight artwork by Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu. This issue also includes the University of Liverpool Kenneth Allott Lecture / The Poetry Society Summer Lecture: Vidyan Ravinthiran on ‘Pleasure’.