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.

Ultimo numero

New poems by Rachael Allen, Ian Duhig, Sylvia Legris, Shane McCrae, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Philip Gross, Kathryn Maris, Sheri Benning, Edward Doegar and more, alongside translations of Goliarda Sapienza, Kristina Tóth and Melissanthi.

Prose includes searching essays by Mina Gorji on Coleridge, Oswald, Wordsworth and Hadfield, and the ways they each listen to quiet; Natalya Anderson on Twyla Tharp and Sharon Olds, and their documentation of the female ageing process through dance and lyric; and Karen Simecek on poetry that is truly multivocal, with a new poem by Momtaza Mehri.

Reviews include Jack Underwood, Wanda Coleman, Jason Allen-Paisant, Fred D′Aguiar, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Joyelle McSweeney.