Poets for the Planet

Santiago Acosta is a scholar and poet working at the intersections of literature, visual culture, and political ecology. His poetry…

Moya De Feyter writes poetry, theatre scripts and prose. Her debut collection Tot iemand eindelijk (Until someone finally) was nominated for the…

As a member of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Cambridge, analysing data from the Large Hadron…

In these perilous times, what can we expect from an anthology of poems related to the climate crisis? A route map out of our troubles? A meeting of minds? A selection of ‘good poetry’, whatever that means? What we know is that these times call for something different.

Elizabeth Uter is an actress, prize-winning poet, and, like me, a member of the Willesden Junction Poets in Residence –…

Since 2001 the Cape Farewell project has worked across the UK with artists from all disciplines to create art that…

he anthology’s ‘Introduction’ offers the reader dozens of possible responses to the prompt ‘Rewilding is’, and the dedication gestures to a wide inclusivity: ‘To the trees, the seas, the soil, the birds, the ice, the clouds, the flowers, the amphibians, the rivers, the weeds, the mammals, the rocks, the sand, the hills, the pebbles, the fish, the mountains, the deserts, the islands, the insects, the heather, the reptiles, the grasses, the tides, the mist, the valleys, the lakes, the, the, the’.

When I first read Ian Humphreys’ debut collection, Zebra (Nine Arches Press, 2019), I was taken aback. Here was a…

Who are the Tits? They are Cat Chong, Laura Hellon, E.P Jenkins, Briony Hughes, Martina Krajňáková, Chloë Proctor, Tanicia Pratt,…

Thompson recently gained attention when his amazing sestina “Triptych”, commenting on the installing of a plaque commemorating slave trader Thomas Phillips, was published by The Outposted Project (the plaque was shortly after torn down). Spanning generations of trauma across tightly woven stanzas, “Triptych” epitomises much of the skill Thompson shows in his debut collection Road Trip in his ability to thread his personal experiences of racism across the band of Britain’s post-war colonial legacy.