Astonishing Snowfall: Jason Allen-Paisant in Conversation with Luke Dunne
Jason Allen-Paisant talks to Luke Dunne about snow, spiritualism, and Reynard the Fox, among other topics.
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Relentless Momentum: Daniel Lefferts in conversation with Joe Prendergast
"I like to create moments in which the monstrosity of my characters breaks through and despoils the immaculate, artificial surfaces they try so furiously to maintain."
Misha Honcharenko: Lyric Risk: On Fanny Howe
"For decades, Howe was recognized as a poet of holy disorientation and exacting conscience—a writer for whom bewilderment was not a weakness but a spiritual method. With this final gathering of writing from the last thirty years, she does not curate a retrospective. Instead, she composes a last interior movement, a turning inward that feels less like summation than distillation."
Lola Gabellini-Fava: A Question of Essence
Had the entirety of Woolf Works kept this creative distance from its source, I might have come away from the performance with a sense that Woolf had been granted some kind of poetic justice. Yet in edging closer and closer to its point of reference as it went on, the piece ends up ironically silencing the very thing it seeks to both celebrate and animate.
Henry Broome: Wrapping wrapped in wrapping
A review of COOP: A Novelette (2025) by Nida Sajid.
Joanna Pidcock: The Doom Squad
"People who work with or in AI seem enthralled by it, and in conversation are often breathlessly delighted by its possibilities and awed by its power. As such an assumption is often made that other people will also find it interesting."
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."
Nick Bartlett: Knowing One's Place
A review of Geoff Dyer's new memoir, Homework (2025).
Helena Aeberli: The Teller and the Tale
Helena Aeberli reviews Thea Lenarduzzi's The Tower (2025).
The Lure of Space: Imogen Cassels in conversation with Will Burns
An interview with the poet Imogen Cassels, from Issue 8
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?"
Austin Spendlowe: Russet Yeas and Honest Kersey Noes: Imogen Cassels and Sonnet 94
Austin Spendlowe reviews Imogen Cassels' much-fêted debut collection.
'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."
Luke Dunne: Subjunctivity
A review of Maureen N. McLane's My Poetics (University of Chicago Press, 2024).
Katie Mulkowsky: Casserole People
"There were other signs of the surreal that week, and they were all somehow marked by eating."
Ed Cooper: Listening with Annea Lockwood's Rivers
Ed Cooper explores ambience as recorded soundscape by way of Annea Lockwood's River Archives Project.
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.
Matilda Sykes: Seen and Heard
Matilda Sykes reads Denise Riley's "Composed underneath Westminster Bridge" as a "hidden elegy".
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.
Sam Warren Miell: Unplaceable Terror
Sam Warren Miell reviews Dominic Lash's new book on Cure, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 mystery-thriller masterwork.
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