Correction Notice: Summer 2025
In the reviews section of our Summer issue, we incorrectly attributed Wendy Pratt’s collection ‘Blackbird Singing at Dusk’ to Arachne Press, rather than Nine Arches Press. We apologise for any confusion caused by this.
In the reviews section of our Summer issue, we incorrectly attributed Wendy Pratt’s collection ‘Blackbird Singing at Dusk’ to Arachne Press, rather than Nine Arches Press. We apologise for any confusion caused by this.
“I think the brevity of poems—or at least mine!—is part of what makes them excellent containers for trauma. You know that however deep into a hole you have to go, you’ll be out of it soon.”
Content warning: sexual violence
By Isabel Rogers.
“It was during the process of writing that the amount of extra work my cousin and I caused my aunt struck me. Until then the poem had been little more than a list of her daily tasks, then a need to say sorry led to the prayer idea.”
“I was leafing through María Teresa’s collected works, the sea only just out of sight, and when I came across this poem I decided to start translating it right away.”
Sam Adams, Editor from 1973-75, looks back on the beginnings of the magazine and our founder Meic Stephens.