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INTERVIEWS

The retiring poet laureate ANDREW MOTION talks to us about getting over writer’s block and the poems he regrets writing.

The leading Shakespeare expert PROFESSOR STANLEY WELLS on the life portrait and loopy conspiracy theorists.

Renowned Faber poet MARK FORD on his love of oddities, fear of clichés and a swimming pool full of peanuts.

Keep an eye on…KATHRYN SIMMONDS. Exciting new award-winning poet.

ARTICLES

Stanza Festival report: Are poetry readings a waste of time?

Nightmare of Existence: The ordeal of Samuel Beckett’s Not I

Guilty Pleasures: The delicious appeal of shiny shiny vampires and bad writing.

Disconnection/Dystopia: Losing yourself in dystopian novels

POETRY

New Voices in Poetry. This issue, Oli Hazzard, Colette Sensier, Anna Kirk and Liz Fincham.

SHORT STORIES

Recordings by a man literally falling apart in a story by Anna Towers

A Minotaur, chess, a prodigy and disappointment in ‘China Shop’ by Eley Williams
REVIEWS
Incisive comments on latest releases by our team of reviewers.