This week's poem is by Oli Hazzard, whose first collection, Between the Windows has recently been published by Carcanet Press. Hazzard's work is intriguing – playful and formally ingenious while ...

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2023 issue. A seed slowly fractures the soil as it ascends We are descended on the ground before an angel appears With no trumpets or ember shouting ...

The Pantoum is a verse form that derived from the traditional Malaysian improvised poem the Pantun. Imported into the west by the 19th century French poet Ernest Fouinet, the Pantoum is based on 4 ...

I like Stephen Fry. I like his eclecticism and his wit, and I like the way he thinks he can do anything, and do it well: act, write novels, present awards at world music events, chair brainy quiz ...

Tell me that you do not think of me, that you have forgotten the wild proscenium of cloud, how bodies affix and then elide, the sky’s stenography. I only ask for you to tell me you have not forgotten ...