Alistair AppletonMay 282 minPoetryKindness / Naomi Shihab NyeNaomi Shihab Nye is an American-Palestinian poet who lives in San Antonio. Her poetry is much garlanded and she has been Young People’s ...
Alistair AppletonMar 272 minPoetryAllerseelen / Paul CelanWhere to start with Celan? A Holocaust survivor whose pulverising poetry stretched the oppressor's language into transcendental shapes,...
Alistair AppletonMar 192 minPoetryFricatives / Eric YipThis poem is shortlisted by the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem in 2024. And it's got it all: sexuality, race, power, language,...
Alistair AppletonMar 121 minPoetryfrom XIVLINERS / Tom RaworthI wrote my undergraduate dissertation on the English (post?) modernist poet, Tom Rawoth back in 1990 when he was midway writing his great...