Alistair AppletonMar 272 minPoetryAllerseelen / Paul CelanWhere to start with Celan? A Holocaust survivor whose pulverising poetry stretched the oppressor's language into transcendental shapes,...
Alistair AppletonMar 121 minPoetryfrom XIVLINERS / Tom RaworthI wrote my undergraduate dissertation on the English (post?) modernist poet, Tom Rawoth back in 1990 when he was midway writing his great...
Alistair AppletonMar 51 minPoetrySymbiosis / Em GrayEm Gray is a neurodivergent poet from Brighton and this haptic, ticklish poem was commended in the Forward Prize this year. Simple as it...
Alistair AppletonFeb 271 minPoetryEliza / Liz BerryThis beautiful Queen-Mab-like poem is from Liz Berry's collection Home Child describing the life of a 12-year-old orphan, Eliza Showell...