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The Poetry Review

Archived since Winter 2013
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49 issues

The Poetry Review, published quarterly by The Poetry Society, is home to the world’s best contemporary poetry and writing about poetry. Since first publication in 1912, it has featured new poems, essays and reviews by internationally renowned and emerging poets, both Nobel Prize winners and newcomers. Famous contributors include T.S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Derek Walcott, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay and Alice Oswald.

Latest Issue:

The Winter 2025 issue of The Poetry Review features new poetry from Gillian Allnutt, Courtney Conrad, Rachel Long, Glyn Maxwell, John McCullough, Chelsey Minnis, Blake Morrison, Jean Sprackland, Kandace Siobhan Walker, Ben Wilkinson and Eric Yip among many others. Our ‘Poets Reading Poets’ are Imogen Cassels on W.S. Graham, Matthew Caley on Emily Berry, and Sanah Ahsan on Molly Peacock. Gillian Allnutt and John Clegg get together to discuss the finer points of poetry and jam-making, and book reviews are Ali Lewis and Abigail Parry on Dean Browne and Sasha Debevec-McKenney; Clare Pollard on Simon Armitage and Deryn Rees-Jones; Oluwaseun Olayiwola on Imogen Cassels and Luke Kennard; Lola Olufemi on Harmony Holiday and Kay Gabriel; Andrew Spragg on Kevin Killian and Verity Spott; Will Harris on Susan Howe; and Godelieve de Bree on a recent selection of pamphlets. This issue also includes the University of Liverpool Kenneth Allott Lecture / The Poetry Society Lecture: Diane Seuss, ‘Burlesque Picaresque in the Rural Midwest: My Education in Poetry’. 


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  • First Issue: Winter 2013
  • Latest Issue: Winter 2025
  • Issue Count: 49