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 Summer 2025 issue of The Poetry Review features work from poets including Diane Seuss, D. Nurkse, Kit Fan andHugh Haughton, Padraig Regan, Iulia David, Kaveh Akbar, Bonnie Hancell, Andrew McMillan, Kim Moore, Claire Berlyn, Lou Hill, Martha Sprackland, Dong Li, Edward Salem and Jacob Polley. Kaveh Akbar and Jack Underwood debate artlessness in their ‘Mutual’ discussion, while the ‘Poets reading Poets’ are Mona Arshi on Mimi Khalvati, Nia Davies on Maggie O’Sullivan and Raymond Antrobus on W.S. Graham. Christopher Lloyd and Livvy Hanks head up our reviews with a conversational discussion of new publications from Richard Scott and Oluwaseun Olayiwola. The magazine features a gallery (and cover) by Bethany Collins, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice examines the relationship between race and language. Last, but not least, readers will find Sasha Debevec-McKenney’s Dearmer Prize-winning poem and judge Abigail Parry’s commentary.