11th January 2026

Sarah Fletcher: 'Life, friends, is boring—’

"John Berryman’s speaker is relatable in his short attention span. Nothing can snag his interest. He acknowledges the greatness of the physical world: ‘the sky flashes | the great sea yearns’. He has been told to touch grass and found it no more green than he had hoped."

8th December 2025

Nick Bartlett: Knowing One's Place

A review of Geoff Dyer's new memoir, Homework (2025).

24th November 2025

Helena Aeberli: The Teller and the Tale

Helena Aeberli reviews Thea Lenarduzzi's The Tower (2025).

10th November 2025

The Lure of Space: Imogen Cassels in conversation with Will Burns

An interview with the poet Imogen Cassels, from Issue 8

6th October 2025

Helena Aeberli: The Caryatid Manifesto

"How can the artist re-create the caryatid, who volunteers herself willingly for pain, passively smiling beneath her heavy weight? . . . How to free the caryatid from her immanence, her servitude? Her marble-flesh paradoxical putty, an offering, an Othering, the serenity of her Mona Lisa smile. How to armour the armless to carve her own angel free?"

22nd September 2025

Austin Spendlowe: Russet Yeas and Honest Kersey Noes: Imogen Cassels and Sonnet 94

Austin Spendlowe reviews Imogen Cassels' much-fêted debut collection.

8th September 2025

'Why am I not always in a meadow of flowers?': Seán Hewitt in Conversation with Elmos Andrews

"I think that I increasingly think of myself as a writer. People often want to say a poet that wrote a novel. I think that if you write a novel, you’re then a novelist – I think that if I hadn’t written poems before, I would be a novelist. I take each form on its own terms, and so writer seems to cover what I do, which is write books."

1st September 2025

Luke Dunne: Subjunctivity

A review of Maureen N. McLane's My Poetics (University of Chicago Press, 2024).

20th June 2025

Katie Mulkowsky: Casserole People

"There were other signs of the surreal that week, and they were all somehow marked by eating."

30th May 2025

Ed Cooper: Listening with Annea Lockwood's Rivers

Ed Cooper explores ambience as recorded soundscape by way of Annea Lockwood's River Archives Project.

9th May 2025

Rosa Appignanesi: Salome Salome Salome

Rosa Appignanesi explores the manifold figurations of Salome in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century culture, touching on both queerness and commerce.

25th April 2025

Matilda Sykes: Seen and Heard

Matilda Sykes reads Denise Riley's "Composed underneath Westminster Bridge" as a "hidden elegy".

13th March 2025

Patrick Christie: Searching for the Golden Age of Higher Education

Patrick Christie investigates the idea of 'a golden age of higher education' in campus novels of the post-war period.

14th February 2025

Sam Warren Miell: Unplaceable Terror

Sam Warren Miell reviews Dominic Lash's new book on Cure, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 mystery-thriller masterwork.

31st January 2025

'It's All Staked on the Seasonal': An Interview with Luke Roberts

The poet-critic Luke Roberts in conversation with Will Burns, from Issue 7

Blog • 12th February 2024

George Cooper: 'The retail centre cannot hold'

Once a byword for numbing homogeneity, IKEA struck me, then, as a sanctuary for the over-stretched.

31st January 2024

Paul Norris: 'Ashbery's Vague Renaissance'

"Writers of the English Renaissance are often ‘fine’ for Ashbery, and bring with them a vague opulence."

9th January 2024

Lewis Barnes: 'Ryuichi Sakamoto: Conserving the Future'

“I am working on things that will only be understood by the grandchildren of the 20th century.”

7th January 2024

Jess Payn: 'dark side of'

This piece clutches at coincidence, which lately includes the recurrence of the moon.

23rd November 2023

Will Burns: 'Complex Viewing'

In Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s recent anthology film Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) chance continually draws attention to the understated complexity of the mundane.