6 days ago4 minENDLESS SKY Winner - Michael ImossanMichael Imossan talks about the inspiration behind his poem 'Lost at sea' which won the RAR Endless Sky poetry competition.
May 61 minENDLESS SKY Runner-Up - Emily CotmanEmily Cotman's 'meet me in the jet stream' wins the runner-up position in the RAR ENDLESS SKY competition.
Mar 233 minPlease Miss by Grace Lavery: A ReviewBethany Holmes reviews Grace Lavery's unique and irreverent memoir of trans identity, autofiction, and queer philosophy
Nov 16, 20214 minIn The Round-Robin with David LongworthAn interview with David Longworth on his round-robin poetry project that he created with attendees of the 2021 The World Transformed.
Sep 21, 20216 min“Poetry Does Nothing.” In conversation with Anthony Anaxagorouby Gaia Lamperti "The world is not straight. The world is not readable. The world is not logical." Anthony Anaxagorou thinks of poetry in...
Aug 31, 20213 minThirty Years A JunglistOliver Walkden reviews Repeater's reissued rave classic 'Junglist', tracing the history of jungle music and its radical roots
Jul 14, 20211 minA 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.
Jun 29, 20212 minScreen to Page: The Woman in the WindowRachel Tanner writes her poem "What You See Isn't What You Get" in response to the 2021 film "The Woman in the Window".
Jun 7, 20211 minTender Buttons #5: Thin Placeswe chat to writer Kerri ní Dochartaigh about her new book Thin Places (Canongate) and its powerful weaving of memoir, history, and folklore.
May 24, 20211 minTender Buttons #3: Flesh, Meat and Fighting the Guerrilla Culture WarWe chat to writer Huw Lemmey about queer desire, shame, a politics of bodily love and ways to fight the British culture war.
May 17, 20211 minTender Buttons #2: Slippery DesiresFor Tender Buttons' second episode, they spoke to writer Catherine Madden about form, sexuality, and childhood.
Apr 28, 20213 min'Telephone Voices' Winner: 'ghosts' Our first poetry competition, 'Telephone Voices', has come to an end - and we're very excited to reveal the winner.
Apr 27, 20211 minTelephone Voices: 'You are number [ ] in the queue'by Matthew Magill Telephone Voices has come to a close and marks the first of Radical Art Review’s creative writing competitions. We...
Apr 26, 20212 minTelephone Voices: 'a gaslighter sighs on the other end'by Matthew Magill Telephone Voices has come to a close and marks the first of Radical Art Review’s creative writing competitions. We...
Mar 8, 20213 minLost Amongst the Noise: Lesley Chow's You're History ReviewedRepeater Books' latest seeks to debunk our misunderstanding of the magnetism of pop music.
Feb 18, 20217 minHow Poetry Stayed Afloat During LockdownWhere do the poets go when the pubs are shut? Georgia Preece explores how poetry has thrived online during the COVID pandemic.
Feb 16, 20212 minPedalling to Heaven: The Poetry of Abu BakrAbu Bakr Sadiq is a Nigerian poet studying at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
Jan 17, 20216 minThe Poetry of Black Lives MatterA series of poetic responses to the #BlackLivesMatter movement with a discussion of each work from the artists.
Jan 4, 20211 minPOEM: Rubble and AshesA poem about Palestine by Yanis Iqbal, an independent researcher and freelance writer based in Aligarh, India.
Jan 1, 20215 minBrexiting the Vampire Castleby A.E. Beverley "In Oscan, a pre-Latin language of Southern Italy, ‘Brutus’ carries more associations: heavy, unwieldy, dull, dumb,...
Nov 30, 20204 minFinding Comfort in Horror: Blue Light of the Screen Reviewedby Billie Walker @billierwalker Horror is a woman’s genre. Women can be everything in horror that they cannot be in romance, action and...
Nov 17, 20205 minTeaching Empowerment: Youth Culture Power ReviewedAnna Winham reviews Youth Culture Power by Jason Rawls and John Robinson, exploring hip hop pedagogy and the power of teaching.
Oct 5, 20201 minPOEM: 'Anchorage'Olúwádáre Pópóola is a 19-year old Nigerian poet. He writes from a city named by rocks and longs to see the world without discrimination.
Sep 25, 20203 minPOEM: 'We'Alexander Billet is a writer, artist, and cultural critic, as well as the editor of the Locust Review and a writer for Jacobin.
Sep 21, 20202 minPOEM: 'Verses of Rain'Shama Jan is a student of literature at the University of Delhi, India. These days, she finds herself perplexed at the accident that she is.
Sep 1, 20201 minPOEM: 'Molecular Fragments Of Solitude'Semilore Kilaso is a Nigerian-born poet, a writer who loves to collect photographs of humans, architecture, wildlife, and landscape.
Aug 28, 20204 minDon't Leave Me Here: Reflecting on Tracey Emin"The idea of being forced to be alone rather than choosing to be. This aspect of Emin's work has resonated throughout my life"
Jun 10, 20201 minA Covid Sonnet by Natasha McDonagh "I hate the daft man who makes us a herd / And who gets the illness but not the pain" To my sister, the doctor Hurry...
May 22, 20201 minThe Blinding Absence of Hope: Omair Bhatby Niall Walker Omair Bhat is a poet from the Lolab Valley in India-occupied Kashmir. He describes his home as a 'military garrison', 'a...
May 11, 20205 minConsidering Wretchedness: Covid Conversations with Nichola SmalleyAs COVID-19 devastates the publishing industry, we caught up with translator Nichola Smalley to discuss her latest work.
Apr 7, 20205 minWeeds That Blossom: Introducing Hippodrome Young PoetsHippodrome Young Poets (HYP) is a Birmingham-based writing programme established “to support young poets in developing their writing style@.
Mar 25, 20204 minWhy We Need a New Food SystemAt first, I laughed. COVID-19, an obscure irritation clogging up my news feed, suddenly became a reality on a post-work trip to Morrisons.
Jan 23, 20206 minThoughts On Political Misanthropy"Surely a mass extinction event is more of a reason to have children?!" Julian Langer considers voluntary human extinction.
Nov 26, 20195 minMesodma: Living Amidst Mass ExtinctionAn eco-absurdist story of life between hope and despair, 'Mesodma' by Julian Langer is written for those living amidst mass extinction.
Nov 15, 20195 minKnights Of: Radical Inclusivity In The World Of Childrens' Publishing If kids don't see themselves in a book, they won't think of writing one themselves. We sat down with radical childrens' publisher Knights Of
Oct 28, 20191 minit's hard to think on your own Shaun Hill has shared his words with huddles of humans across the country, reading in beds, bars, and festivals. Here's his latest.
Sep 12, 20191 minI would swallow all of this Shaun Hill has shared his words with huddles of humans across the country, reading in beds, bars, and festivals like UK Young Artists' Takeo
Aug 6, 20197 minHistory, Magic and Resistance: In Conversation with Rosanne RabinowitzResonance and Revolt is a collection of short stories written by Rosanne Rabinowitz over the past 11 years, and published by Eibonvale Press
Jul 28, 20193 minAwaiting the Third Disruption: Fully Automated Luxury Communism Reviewed "Much of what Aaron Bastani discusses and proposes reflects what the Labour Party is already saying." Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Mar 31, 20191 minKraken"The pulse swallowed by the still black, The tremor sunk, Vacillates." by J.D.Reed.
Mar 31, 20192 minMen's Memory"As fair as the moon, clear as the sun, as terrible as an army.’ by A. E. Beverley.
Mar 31, 20191 minSowing Season"The valley lies in anticipation for the pendulum swing of Saturn’s sickle— the signal of his harvest." by Oran Bailey.
Mar 31, 20191 minVisions of Eurydice in the Underworld (For Joanna)A poem by Gibraltarian poet and musician, Gabriel Moreno.
Mar 31, 20193 minReligions of the Commuter Belt: Sapiens ReviewedNiall Walker reviews Yuval Noah Harari's bestseller, Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind.
Mar 1, 20191 minRose://Thorn: Poem by Marquis Green"And wonder just in a moment, If this memory will fade away like the ocean’s tide, Or if it will burn itself in like ink on a page."
Feb 13, 20193 minLiving on Winter Streets: Diary of a Rough Sleeper ReviewDespite all his suffering, Fraser’s diary is a journal which seeks to inspire hope. By Niall Walker.
Jan 26, 20191 minGhazal of Separation: a poem"My body was born with the memories of yours, which I may never learn." By Sachal Khan.