Not for the masses, but from the masses
Ian Parks grew up in a South Yorkshire mining family - as his new volume of poetry The Exile House hits the shelves, Jody Porter finds out his sources of inspiration.
The Fall
Will Stone was left pondering an incoherent outing
Scottish reel treat
This weekend sees a unique celebration of cinema at Glasgow's Southside Film Festival
The Economics Of Killing
An expose of the military-industrial complex shows how its actions grease the transfer of resources from the poorest to the richest globally
Andy Croft
The fall from childhood
Monday 16 November 2009
According to recent research by the OU, more than half of primary school teachers cannot remember the names of more than two poets. Cue shock-horror from the world of poetry. What's the point of all those glitzy prizes and expensive PR campaigns if one in five primary school teachers don't know the names of any poets at all?
Who are you calling small?
Wednesday 14 October 2009
Eliot's The Waste Land, Auden's Spain and Tony Harrison's V were all first published in slim volumes. Bloodaxe Books began life with Ken Smith's 20-page pamphlet Tristan Crazy.
Outside the narrative
Monday 17 August 2009
John Agard, Tom Leonard and Michael Horovitz have been working a long way from the mainstream for many years.
Preserving memories
Wednesday 15 July 2009
The past is a foreign country, wrote LP Hartley. "They do things differently there."
In memory of Mitchell
Tuesday 26 May 2009
Britain's shadow laureate at the very height of his powers
Darwin in verse: the bottom line
Tuesday 21 April 2009
How mixing poetry and science helps us better understand the world