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

by Rachel Davies

by John Chinaka Onyech

by Harry Gallagher

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

by Omar Sabbagh

by Omar Sabbagh

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

by Kevin Scheepers

by Olaore Durodola-Oloto

by Khayelihle Benghu

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

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

by Patrick Cotter

by Gabriel Gbadamosi

by Nuala Watt

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

by Julie McNeill

by Victor Osemeka

by Jamie Lynch

By Rebecca Lowe

by Miriam Spillane

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

by Curtis Brown

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

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

by Imasha Costa

RUTH AYLETT reviews two collections of outright political poetry

by Christopher Norris

by Donna Irving

by  Martin Hayes

by Fiko D

by Omar Sabbagh

by Omar Sabbagh

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

by Alan Price

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

by Vince Mills

by Merryn Williams

by Rose Lennard

By Nigel Davison

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

by Yvonne Reddick

by Matt Duggan

The bard heralds the festive summer 

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

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

by Abeer Ameer