PRE-ORDER | Spring 2026 / Poets on The Lyric

• A roundtable on the lyric, with musings from this issues’ poets on one of the oldest and most familiar forms of poetry – and how knowing the rules can help us to paint outside the lines;
• An conversation between US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze and Zoë Brigley about endangered languages, translation, shaping laureateship on his own terms, and his new collection Into the Hush;
• A spotlight on National Poet of Wales Hanan Issa and Manon Steffan Ros’ Santes Dwynwen project – including illustrations by Mythsntits and translation by Meleri Davies;
• Clecs with Abeer Ameer, winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (Written) 2025;
• and Bronwen Price, CEO and Head of Editorial for Seren Books and Poetry Wales on what publishers are looking for when commissioning prose, and the art of matchmaking writers and editors.

Poetry:

Imogen Wade, Natalie Ann Holborow, Nathan Evans, Kenton K. Yee, Winnifred Mok, Sidharth Dasgupta, Amy Dugmore, Jane Houston, Andrew McNeillie, Michael Imossan, James McConachie, Helen McSherry, Hilary Watson, Nashwa Nasreldin, Lily Dyu, Louise Mather, Patrick Lodge, Suzanne Iuppa, and a spotlight on Daniel Sluman.

Reviews:

• Clare Pollard reviews Iris Murdoch’s Pomes from an Attic: Selected Poems 1936-1995, Lynette Roberts’ A letter to the Dead: Collected Poems, and Sonia Sanchez’s This Is Not a Small Voice: Selected Poems;
• Nerys Williams reviews Lyn Hejinian’s The Proposition and Menna Elfyn’s Parch;
• and Benjamin Aleshire reviews Gabrielle Bates’ Judas Goat, Roberto Pastore’s Graveyards On Other Planets and Laura Wainwright’s The Storm’s Flora.