Helena is an au pair in Paris, discovering the city and looking after two privileged and beautiful little girls: Sophie and Matilde.
But the longer Helena works for the family, the more the attraction between herself ...
two poems from the early part of the extended sequence 'Jamie's Book of Ingenuity'. The first, 'How to rise', employs conflicting pieces of advice culled from obituatries, tribute, laudatory speeches, etc. The second poem, ...
Arriving in the Scottish Highlands, Martin and Sue decide to escape their luxury hotel, heading out for a night of back-to-basics living in an abandoned shack. When a storm strikes, they find themselves stranded in the ...
This chapter tracks developments in Contemporary British Vanguard poetry through concerns with the challenge of the long poem, attitudes towards language, the problem of categorisation, notions of poetic community, and the ...
Join Simon Perril as he writes an ecstatically elastic 50th birthday poem bidding adieu to his 40s. Written on the skin of the moment, the membrane of occasion, these poems nod, wink, cajole, caress, proclaim and defame ...
This collaboration with Professor Robert Sheppard involved inventing and writing as Latvian poet Janis Raups, as part of Sheppard's European Union of Imaginary Authors’ project.
This essay discusses the poetry of Sean Bonney, Peter Manson, and Grace Lake / Anna Mendelssohn in the context of what it means to use the trope of the Poet Maudit in a twentieth century fin de siecle.It examines the use ...