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The best recent poetry – review roundup

Gravity Archives by Andrew Motion; Rabbitbox by Wayne Holloway-Smith; Strange Architectures by JL Williams; I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken

The Guardian - UK · Mar 6

The best recent poetry – review roundup

Afterburn by Blake Morrison; Into the Hush by Arthur Sze; Unsafe by Karen McCarthy Woolf; Only Sing by John Berryman; Lamping Wild Rabbits by Simon Maddrell; Dream Latitudes by Alia Kobuszko

The Guardian - UK · Feb 6

No country for old poets? Barry Hill’s Lamb is a work of vitality and rejuvenation

If any generalisations can be made of Australian poetry, one of them might be that Australia is no country for old poets. It is hard enough finding an audience while you’re alive. Then, when you’re no longer around to read or speak of them, your poems will likely slip into…

The Conversation · Jun 16, 2025

The ending to Succession could be hidden in this John Berryman poem from 1964

Succession isn't known for being an "Easter-eggy operation", but its episodes have an odd naming convention which could reveal how it ends for the Roys.

ABC News · Mar 25, 2023

Susie Boyt: ‘I found Noel Streatfeild in the phone directory and rang her up’

The author on Ballet Shoes, Annie Ernaux’s lyrical precision, and understanding the world through Henry James

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2022