Ange Mlinko

Bard of New Jersey

There’s tremendous showmanship in August Kleinzahler’s language, the power to leap from dainty diction to grotesque vocabulary within the space of a single line.

Ashbery’s Cliffhangers

John Ashbery’s first posthumous collection is a reminder that collage and other formal experiments have always been central to his work.

‘And You Give Yourself Away’

Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s obsession with the eighteenth-century poet Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chronaill amounts to a search for second sight, a vision to deepen the reality of her own life.

‘The Splendour and the Sting’

The passionate voices and formal experiments of two poets who should no longer be neglected.

Exile in Florida

Naples, Florida

a poem

Water Music

‘A Walk Through Someone Else’

Acts of Extreme Attention

Karen Solie, the consummate poet of the Trans-Canadian Highway, has taken an evolutionary leap with her recent poetry, trading comedy for sublime beauty.

‘Resist and Disobey!’

A View Beyond the Personal

Holding It Together

A Midsummer Night’s Work

a poem

Whole Earth Troubadour

The poems of W.S. Merwin