In Western thought, literature has often been separated from politics. Plato founded this tradition when he famously banished the poet from the city with the resounding words: “Not pleasure and ...
Dylan Brethour tells the tragic tale of the Mandelstams – poet Osip and writer Nadezhda – whose harrowing experience of persecution, exile and betrayal exposed the USSR’s excesses.
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Tradition, betrayal and pain dance together in this poem.
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What can you buy on a street? A song of surprise.
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A poem/dialogue on possibility and impossibility.
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On fortune, reading, and love of the other.
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Remembering the fallen.
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A meditation on inequality.
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A future trend turns its back on clothes.
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“Can ‘modern’ ever equate with ‘enjoyment’ in art or books? And should we worry if it doesn’t?” Michael Spring answers this question, in an essay that takes us from Larkin ...
Litro chats with the spoken word artist ahead of his Latitude Festival appearance.
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Ahead of his appearance at the Latitude Festival, Litro talks to one of the hottest names on London’s spoken word scene.
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I have travelled widely and to some unexpected places like India, China, Iraq and Malaysia. I don’t have an overwhelming desire to go anywhere as such. I am restless ...
A real life ends, but is imagined by those left behind…
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In the last of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Philippa Barker contemplates her desktop.
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In the fourth of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Linda Atterton takes a new angle on Romeo and Juliet.
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In the third of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Brian Robert Flynn revisits John Keats’ sonnet 635: ‘When I have fears that I may cease to be’.
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In the first of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Uschi Gatward reappropriates Sonnet 66 for the modern economy.
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A legacy left in ink.
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Founder Michael Schmidt, describing the poets in Carcanet’s last anthology, used the curiously business-friendly phrase “high strike rate”. What would the savvy poetry speculator have made of it?
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