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 Winter 2025 issue of The Poetry Review features new poetry from Gillian Allnutt, Courtney Conrad, Rachel Long, Glyn Maxwell, John McCullough, Chelsey Minnis, Blake Morrison, Jean Sprackland, Kandace Siobhan Walker, Ben Wilkinson and Eric Yip among many others. Our ‘Poets Reading Poets’ are Imogen Cassels on W.S. Graham, Matthew Caley on Emily Berry, and Sanah Ahsan on Molly Peacock. Gillian Allnutt and John Clegg get together to discuss the finer points of poetry and jam-making, and book reviews are Ali Lewis and Abigail Parry on Dean Browne and Sasha Debevec-McKenney; Clare Pollard on Simon Armitage and Deryn Rees-Jones; Oluwaseun Olayiwola on Imogen Cassels and Luke Kennard; Lola Olufemi on Harmony Holiday and Kay Gabriel; Andrew Spragg on Kevin Killian and Verity Spott; Will Harris on Susan Howe; and Godelieve de Bree on a recent selection of pamphlets. This issue also includes the University of Liverpool Kenneth Allott Lecture / The Poetry Society Lecture: Diane Seuss, ‘Burlesque Picaresque in the Rural Midwest: My Education in Poetry’.