Photograph courtesy of Maria Heath Maria Heath’s poetry, essays, and autobiographical writing have been published by Torriano Poets, Nirala Publications, Strand International, Lakeview, and George Whitman at Shakespeare and Company. She holds a Masters in Fiction Writing (with Distinction) from Royal Holloway, University of London, and is currently working toward a doctorate in Creative Non-Fiction at King’s College, London. Having grown up in…

Photograph by kind permission of Xavier Bonfill Mary Mulholland is a widely published poet whose work has appeared in magazines like Magma, Poetry News, Under the Radar, Stand, Mslexia, and Aesthetica. She has an MA in Poetry from the Newcastle Poetry School and is the author of two pamphlets, what the sheep taught me and the elimination game. Mulholland founded Red Door Poets…

Detail from Day of Judgment by Michelangelo Wikimedia Commons Roger Murphy is a poet whose work interrogates the gulf between private feeling and public expression, between the enormity of human suffering and the polite silences with which we so often meet it. Born in Dublin in 1955 and raised in England, Murphy’s path has been…

John Greening. Photograph courtesy of the author We are proud to publish the following six poems by John Greening, an English poet, critic, playwright, and teacher whose work is worthy of particular note. Greening has published more than twenty poetry collections, including To the War Poets (2013), The Silence (2019), and The Interpretation of Owls: Selected Poems, 1977–2022 (2023), alongside…

Photograph by Gene Taylor on pexels Or, how it feels to be cancelled by the SNP. by J.W. Wood Edinburgh, January 2009. The pub is packed: you’re reading as one of four up-and-coming poets, all with your first books or pamphlets published in the last eighteen months. You yourself have just had the longest…

Photograph Johnny Ring There are many Andrew Motions. Not only an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009 but someone who gave much back to the English nation through his work as a founder of the Poetry Archive and President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England. He…

Meeting of the Communist Party of India in Kerela. Photograph by Mr.Rabindra Bagh The precise term for revolutionaries to use is not “socialism”, but “communism”, but the agent of revolution is not a communist party, it is communists themselves by DOMZA The communists mean to show the way, as a vanguard, through revolution, to…

The illustration on the Pioneer 10 plaque. Designed by Carl Sagan and Frank Drake. Artwork prepared by Linda Salzman Sagan. Photograph by NASA Ames Research Center (NASA-ARC) A World Speaks Its Technology by Phil Hall The search for alien techno-signatures requires a deep understanding of what is technology itself. The central contention of this essay is that particular technologies…

The cover of Praeterita. On the left are drawings of John Ruskin’s two aunts by Phil Hall It took me years to read Crime and Punishment. I first tried when I was 14, then tried again at 15 and finally completed it at 16. What world do we enter, when we open a book?…

Michael Schmidt. With kind permission by Yogesh Patel In the prefatory statement Michael Schmidt opens Here They Are (2026) with a declaration: “Poetry sometimes goes its own way, abandoning storytelling and lyric and following instead ‘the way of language’, discovering for a change what it has to say – more interesting than what the ‘I’ intended.” This claim…