ALT: Richard Sherman #25 Football Player Waving

An essay by Dr Patrick Eyres. This drawing, by Chris Broughton (fig. 1), salutes the way that the craftsmanship of Keith Bailey articulates the poetry of Ian Hamilton Finlay. It

Rishi Dastidar in conversation with Sarah Howe about workplace language, satire, Bruce Forsyth and his new collection, Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak.

Music, prosaic idiosyncrasy and whimsy from the unique Ivor Cutler.

In Denise Riley’s recent short collection of essays, A Chorus of Ears (Picador), she reflects on the way the persona of the poet frequently gets in the way of the reader and the poem. Her con…

To mark the reopening of our Bookshop, redesigned by architect and artist Alexander Brodsky, we have launched a new quarterly series of seminal texts in translation. These works have been chosen for their nuance and depth of reflection, illuminating and exposing the fractures of our contemporary world.

Geraldine Clarkson is a writer of Irish heritage, who lives in the English Midlands. Her poetry and prose have been published widely in literary journals internationally. Recent chapbooks are Singleta...

from the album Cairngorms Fauna Jukebox

an essay on tidal poetics Alec Finlay In his menagerie, Glasgow Beasts (1961), my father, or faither, Ian Hamilton Finlay’s urban fox is a typical bully-huff. the blokes aa sayed ah wis a G R E A T…