You shouldn’t always judge a book by its cover, but you can get pretty far with an epigraph. The epigraph to Will Harris’s new collection, Brother Poem (following his T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted ...

The poems are in Sapphic stanzas, arranged alphabetically by first letter of first word, here ο and π. The dialect is Aeolic, the vernacular of Sappho’s native Lesbos. In papyrus order, the poems are ...

Gerald Greer didn't serve in the military, but respected those who did. He wrote the poem in June, after seeing the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford.

It's a poem about her older brother Steven's struggle with heroin addiction – an addiction that permeated the family dynamic. "I wrote that poem one day when he wasn't doing very good," said Olivia.

The epigraph to Will Harris’s new collection, Brother Poem (following his T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted RENDANG in 2020), is a brief but telling prelude, an as-if translated from Russian into English: ...