Patricia Smith's retrospective The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems reviewed in The Guardian of 2 May 2026.
American poet Patricia Smith's retrospective The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems named a Finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. The book is published in the UK in May 2026.
Interviews with Rita Ann Higgins on RTE Radio 1's Brendan O'Connor Show & Poetry People, and in the Connacht Tribune. Reviews in The Irish Catholic & on Books for Breakfast podcast.
Reviews in Guardian, Telegraph, Little Review, TLS, Yorkshire Times, Northumbrian & The Alchemy Spoon; print, podcast & radio interviews; Guardian Poem of the Week. Books of the Year. TS Eliot...
Jennifer Lee Tsai's first full-length poetry book Melete was reviewed in The Observer as a Poetry Book of the Month on Sunday 3 May 2026.
Patricia Smith wins the National Book Award for Poetry 2025 for her retrospective The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems (Scribner; USA) - published in the UK by Bloodaxe in May 2026.
Reviews for the late Anne Stevenson's Collected Poems; feature review in the TLS; poem features in The Guardian, Yorkshire Times, Observer & The Simple Things magazine.
We are immensely saddened by news of the death of J.H. Prynne, aged 89.
Pascale Petit wins the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize 2025-2026 for her new poem 'Night Canoe on Lake Sandoval'. In a historic first, a second poem by Pascale was runner-up for the same award.
