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This week’s poetry spotlight shines on Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton’s first collection together, The Elsewhere Variations, highlighting the poem ‘Like-Minded’.
This week’s spotlight shines on Emma Ashmere’s atmospheric collection Dreams They Forgot, highlighting the story ‘The Winter Months’.
This week’s spotlight shines once again on Jelena Dinić’s stunning collection In the Room with the She Wolf, highlighting the poem ‘Devil’s Elbow’.
This week’s spotlight, like its feature writer Mike Ladd, subverts its usual form to highlight the essay, ‘It will be freezing and wet but the Iliad will be open’ from the recently released Dream Tetras.
This week’s poetry spotlight returns to Ali Whitelock’s charming and much-loved work, highlighting the poem ‘the cumquats of christmas past’ from her second collection, The Lactic Acid in the Calves of Your Despair.
This week’s poetry spotlight shines on the poem ‘Cross’, from Helen Parsons’ collection The Feeling of Bigness.
This week’s poetry spotlight contemplates the poem ‘Courtier’, from Aidan Coleman’s vigorous collection Mount Sumptuous.
This week’s poetry spotlight shines on Heather Taylor-Johnson’s freshly launched collection Alternative Hollywood Ending, highlighting the poem ‘Botanic Park’.
This week’s poetry spotlight shines on Mike Ladd’s poem ‘Back Again’, from his multi-genre collection Invisible Mending.