PRE-ORDER | Summer 2026 / Poetry & Teaching

• ‘The Player in the Jazz Band rather than the Conductor of the Orchestra’: Eileen Gbabgo talks to Jacob Sam-La Rose about approaching facilitation as a creative practice;
• Cargoes: Alison Binney on teachers and their ‘poem-hoards’;
• The Boy Dealt Out the Burning Deck: Jon Stone offers card games for poetry classes;
• Poetry as Pedagogy: Samantha Egelstaff on the importance of creative writing for young people’s wellbeing;
• ‘Joy is My Middle Name’ Zöe Brilgey talks with Dylan Thomas Award Winner Sasha Debevec-McKenney;
• Clecs – ten questions for Nicola Davies, Children’s Laureate Wales and Siôn Tomos Owen, Bardd Plant Cymru.

Poetry:

Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri,  Maryam  Alsaeid, Michael Bazzett, Veronica A. Bettencourt, Nisha Bhakoo, Dale Booton, Jane Campbell, Karan Chambers, Ross Cogan, Michael Conley, Michael Dooley, Glyn Edwards, Jonathan Edwards, Malisa Garlieb, Zoë Green, Chloë Heuch, Christopher Horton, Ellis Hughes, Caitlin Tina Jones, Jayant Kashyap, L Kiew, Joshua McKinney, Isabella Mead, Ryan O’Neill, Per Olvmyr, Stephen Payne, Carlton Rose, Lynne Shapiro, Di Slaney, Henry St Leger, Avril Shakira Villar, Joan García Viltró, Max Wallis, Charlotte Wetton, Obiotika Wilfred Toochukwu and Patrick Wright.

Reviews:

• Tilly Nevin reviews Natalie Linh Bolderston’s Divinations on Survival, Kym Deyn’s Folkish, and Tishani Doshi’s Egrets, While War;
• Molly Knox reviews Polly Atkin’s Emergency Dream, J R Carpenter’s p a u s e, and Roma Havers’ The Natural Way;
• and Oliver Dixon reviews of Elin ap Hywel’s Still Here, Emmanuel Hocquard’s Elegies (translated by Cole Swensen, and Jeannette L. Clariond’s Even Time Bleeds (translated by Forrest Gander).