Tag: poetry

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    Reece Beckett

    A clear shift towards pop appeal: A Review of Kae Tempest’s The Line is a Curve

    Reece Beckett dives into the world of Kae Tempest’s newest album.

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    Reece Beckett

    Hidden Gems: Anne Sexton’s Live or Die (1966)

    *TW: Mental health, suicide* Anne Sexton’s work in poetry generally seems to have been left behind by many. This may speak to a general preference within popular poetry to focus more so on stories of redemption, whilst Sexton’s usually bleak outlook – and her bleaker personal life, made public – take her work away from […]

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    Elizabeth Sorrell

    Review: Brian Bilston’s ‘Alexa, What is There to Know About Love?’

    Poetry often has the reputation of pretentious writers twiddling a quill in their study, brewing up farfetched witticisms and flaunting worryingly expansive knowledge of flowers and birds on a laboriously lengthy verse. While I think this image of poets has shifted over the decades, we sometimes need a reminder of the wonders that down-to-earth, lighthearted […]

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    Sam Pegg

    ‘All I’ve ever wanted to do is make people laugh’ – An Interview With Callum Holgate

    University of Southampton student, Callum Holgate, is a third-year English student publishing his first book of poetry. Boys will be Boys, is a compendium of poems written over the years; some of them previously appearing on Callum’s Instagram or Twitter, as well as including more intimate poems and ones written specifically for the book. As Boys […]

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    Morgan McMillan

    Our Favourite Fantasy Poems: Folklore, Witches and Devils

    Kubla Khan – Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan is a transcription of a dream-vision Samuel Taylor Coleridge experienced whilst under the influence of opium, the entire poem was inspired by a travel book, Purchas His Pilgrimage. Coleridge began to focus on the line “at Zanadu Kubla Khan built a pleasure palace”, this line opened Coleridge’s […]

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    Callum Holgate

    Social Media Poetry: Fast Food Poetry, a Suggestion of Poetical Language

    Social Media poetry, poetry or a trend? Callum Holgate creates the term ‘Fast Food Poetry’ and the lack of meaning it provides.

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    Olivia Dellar

    Review: Lana Del Rey – ‘Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass’, A Masterpiece of Kaleidoscopic Thoughts.

    It’s here. Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass is here in hardback, audiobook, vinyl and cassette glory.

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    Elizabeth Sorrell

    The Purpose and Rules Behind Imagist Poetry

    Elizabeth Sorrell digs deep into work by Ezra Pound and F.S Flint.

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    Morgan McMillan

    “Eye, the cauldron of morning”: Our Favourite Poets and Spoken Word Artists

    We asked some of our writers at The Edge their favourite poets & spoken word artists and ended up with quite the eclectic bunch.

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    Amber-Louise

    Artist in Focus: The 1975

    Poetry is in the streets and now, thanks to The 1975, on the radio.

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    Amber-Louise

    Three Poems You Should Read This Armistice Day

    On a day of reflection, literature can help us to remember. Amber-Louise gives her top poetry picks for the centenary.

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    Katja Stout
    George the Poet, Equality and Human Rights Commission

    George the Poet tackles hate crime in a moving video released on the anniversary of Jo Cox’s murder

    George the Poet releases a powerful video tackling hate crime on the anniversary of Jo Cox’s murder.

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    Eduard Gafton

    ‘We were all very transformed by his poetry’ – Interviews with Pablo Larraín and Gael García Bernal on Neruda

    Eduard Gafton interviews the team behind Neruda: director Pablo Larraín and Golden Globe award winner Gael García Bernal.

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    Eduard Gafton

    First Look Review: Neruda

    Eduard Gafton delves deep into the turbulent world of 1948 Chile with this review of Neruda.