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Book Review / 19 June 2026
19 June 2026

JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems

21st Century Poetry / 19 June 2026
19 June 2026

by Rachel Davies

21st Century Poetry / 3 June 2026
3 June 2026

by John Chinaka Onyech

21st Century Poetry / 13 May 2026
13 May 2026

by Harry Gallagher

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Poetry Review / 1 May 2026
1 May 2026

Read this book and be aware that this is our history, says RUTH AYLETT

21st Century Poetry / 29 April 2026
29 April 2026

by Omar Sabbagh

21st Century Poetry / 29 April 2026
29 April 2026

by Omar Sabbagh

The Laozi (Lao Tzu) sculpture in Quanzhou is over 780 years old and was carved from a single rock during the Song Dynasty (960–1279 CE) / Pic: N509FZ/CC
Poetry / 15 April 2026
15 April 2026

FINOLA SCOTT relishes a collection of verse in Scots that, among other things, meditates on the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu

21st Century Poetry / 1 April 2026
1 April 2026

by Kevin Scheepers

21st Century Poetry / 25 March 2026
25 March 2026

by Olaore Durodola-Oloto

21st Century Poetry / 18 March 2026
18 March 2026

by Khayelihle Benghu

bounds
Poetry review / 18 March 2026
18 March 2026

ALAN MORRISON recommends a consummate, heart-warming collection about a working-class upbringing in the industrial north-east

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Attila the Stockbroker Diary / 14 March 2026
14 March 2026

The Bard finds Bard Company, and rallies us all to the anti-fascist cause

21st Century Poetry / 11 March 2026
11 March 2026

by Patrick Cotter

21st Century Poetry / 4 March 2026
4 March 2026

by Gabriel Gbadamosi

21st Century Poetry / 25 February 2026
25 February 2026

by Nuala Watt

love
Poetry Review / 11 February 2026
11 February 2026

ALISTAIR FINDLAY recommends the simple cadence, common prose, free verse, and descriptive power of a new collection by Julie McNeill

21st century poetry / 11 February 2026
11 February 2026

by Julie McNeill

21st Century Poetry / 28 January 2026
28 January 2026

by Victor Osemeka

who we are launch
Your Paper / 22 January 2026
22 January 2026
21st Century Poetry / 21 January 2026
21 January 2026

by Jamie Lynch

21st Century Poetry / 5 January 2026
5 January 2026
21st Century Poetry / 31 December 2025
31 December 2025

By Rebecca Lowe

21st Century Poetry / 17 December 2025
17 December 2025

by Miriam Spillane

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Book Review / 11 December 2025
11 December 2025

HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean

21st Century Poetry / 10 December 2025
10 December 2025

by Curtis Brown

who we are
Poetry Review / 5 December 2025
5 December 2025

ANDY CROFT welcomes the publication of an anthology of recent poems published by the Morning Star, and hopes it becomes an annual event

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21st Century Poetry / 3 December 2025
3 December 2025

JENNY MITCHELL, poetry co-editor for the Morning Star, introduces her priorities, and her first selection

21st Century Poetry / 3 December 2025
3 December 2025

by Imasha Costa

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Poetry / 26 November 2025
26 November 2025

RUTH AYLETT reviews two collections of outright political poetry

21st Century Poetry / 26 November 2025
26 November 2025

by Christopher Norris

21st Century Poetry / 19 November 2025
19 November 2025

by Donna Irving

21st Century Poetry / 12 November 2025
12 November 2025

by  Martin Hayes

21st Century Poetry / 29 October 2025
29 October 2025

by Fiko D

21st Century Poetry / 15 October 2025
15 October 2025

by Omar Sabbagh

21st Century Poetry / 15 October 2025
15 October 2025

by Omar Sabbagh

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Appreciation / 8 October 2025
8 October 2025

JOHN NEWSHAM recommends rereading Tony Harrison’s poem V for its relevance to 2025

21st Century Poetry / 8 October 2025
8 October 2025

by Alan Price

3/10
Attila the Stockbroker Diary / 3 October 2025
3 October 2025

The Bard reflects on sharing a bed, and why he wont go to Chelsea

21st Century Poetry / 1 October 2025
1 October 2025

by Vince Mills

21st Century Poetry / 1 October 2025
1 October 2025

by Merryn Williams

21st Century Poetry / 9 September 2025
9 September 2025

by Rose Lennard

21st Century Poetry / 27 August 2025
27 August 2025

By Nigel Davison

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Attila the Stockbroker Diary / 22 August 2025
22 August 2025

The Bard commutes to work for the first time in 45 years

21st Century Poetry / 30 July 2025
30 July 2025

by Yvonne Reddick

21st Century Poetry / 23 July 2025
23 July 2025

by Matt Duggan

merry hell
Attila the Stockbroker Diary / 29 May 2025
29 May 2025

The bard heralds the festive summer 

Socialist musicians / Pic: Author supplied
Poetry / 29 May 2025
29 May 2025

Human rights activist PETE STEVENSON, aka Pete the Poet, considers alternative ways of holding a meeting

21st Century Poetry / 14 May 2025
14 May 2025

Poems by Mohammed Moussa, Mark Kirkbride, Omar Sabbagh, Ruth Aylett, Mark Paffard and Patrick Jones

21st Century Poetry / 30 April 2025
30 April 2025

by Abeer Ameer

21st Century Poetry / 8 April 2025
8 April 2025
by Adaora Raji
Poetry review / 2 April 2025
2 April 2025
RUTH AYLETT admires the blunt honesty with which a woman’s experience is recorded, but detects the unexamined privilege that underlies it
21st Century Poetry / 2 April 2025
2 April 2025
by Maria Ferguson
21st Century Poetry / 26 March 2025
26 March 2025
by Lorraine Voss
Attila the Stockbroker Diary / 21 March 2025
21 March 2025
Given the global plague of Agent Orange, the bard channels his energy into community self-help
21st Century Poetry / 19 March 2025
19 March 2025
by Steven Taylor
21st Century Poetry / 12 March 2025
12 March 2025
by Tracey Rhys
21st Century Poetry / 5 March 2025
5 March 2025
by Gordon Scapens
Rene Magritte, Les Graces Naturelles (The Natural Graces)
Poetry review / 5 March 2025
5 March 2025
ALAN MORRISON hears the tradition of English Modernism in an unusually accomplished debut volume of poetry
21st Century Poetry / 26 February 2025
26 February 2025
by Ross Wilson