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ENDLESS SKY Winner - Michael Imossan

Michael Imossan talks about the inspiration behind his poem 'Lost at sea' which won the RAR Endless Sky poetry competition.

ENDLESS SKY Runner-Up - Emily Cotman

Emily Cotman's 'meet me in the jet stream' wins the runner-up position in the RAR ENDLESS SKY competition.

Please Miss by Grace Lavery: A Review

Bethany Holmes reviews Grace Lavery's unique and irreverent memoir of trans identity, autofiction, and queer philosophy

In The Round-Robin with David Longworth

An interview with David Longworth on his round-robin poetry project that he created with attendees of the 2021 The World Transformed.

“Poetry Does Nothing.” In conversation with Anthony Anaxagorou

by Gaia Lamperti "The world is not straight. The world is not readable. The world is not logical." Anthony Anaxagorou thinks of poetry in...

Thirty Years A Junglist

Oliver Walkden reviews Repeater's reissued rave classic 'Junglist', tracing the history of jungle music and its radical roots

A BLOOD CONDITION | In Conversation With Poet Kayo Chingonyi

Our Literature Editor Jessie Jones spoke to Kayo Chingonyi about his new poetry collection A Blood Condition.

Screen to Page: The Woman in the Window

Rachel Tanner writes her poem "What You See Isn't What You Get" in response to the 2021 film "The Woman in the Window".

Tender Buttons #5: Thin Places

we chat to writer Kerri ní Dochartaigh about her new book Thin Places (Canongate) and its powerful weaving of memoir, history, and folklore.

Tender Buttons #3: Flesh, Meat and Fighting the Guerrilla Culture War

We chat to writer Huw Lemmey about queer desire, shame, a politics of bodily love and ways to fight the British culture war.