Issue 6 - Spring/Summer 2021 - Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal
This is the Spring/Summer 2021 issue of Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, edited by Naush Sabah. The prose in this issue includes translation features from Urdu, Arabic, and Somali; Liz Berry curates reading list of women poets; Jake Reynolds writes about John Ashbery’s final three collections; Gerry Cambridge gives a close reading of Larkin’s ‘Love Again’; Yomi Sode writes about Black performance; we have a wide range of reviews; and poems from Hannah Lowe, Victoria Kennefick, Eve Grubin, John McCullough, April Yee, John Greening, Jannat Ahmed, Courtney Conrad, Andrew Neilson, and more. See full listing below.
Prose
Liz Berry on women poets with Mona Arshi, Fiona Benson, Malika Booker, Hannah Lowe, and Pascale Petit • Gerry Cambridge on Philip Larkin’s ‘Love Again’ • Sana Goyal reviews how the first sparks became visible, A Terrible Thing, and Archway Sonnets • Khaled Hakim reviews How the Hell Are You?, John Glenday’s Selected Poems, and Leni’s Triumph • Ibrahim Hirsi on Haaji Aadan Ahmed Af-Qaloo’ • Sara Kazmi reviews The Taxidermist and Ripe • Victoria Moul reviews Staying Human and New Poetries VIII • Naima Rashid on Perveen Shakir • Jake Reynolds on John Ashbery • Yomi Ṣode on performance and A Little Devil in America • Dareen Tatour’s prison memoir • Jeremy Wikeley on A Fire Shared • April Yee on Sergius Seeks Bacchus and The Year of Blue Water
Poets
Jannat Ahmed • Haaji Aadan Ahmed Af-Qaloo’ • Courtney Conrad • Katherine Duffy • Vera Fibisan • Rhoda Greaves • John Greening • Eve Grubin • Robert Hamberger • Nicola Heaney • Matt Howard • Victoria Kennefick • Hannah Lowe • John McCullough • Cheryl Moskowitz • Andrew Neilson • Elizabeth O’Connor • Isaac Ouro-Gnao • Stewart Sanderson • Perveen Shakir • Dareen Tatour • April Yee
Editor
Naush Sabah