Issue 9 - Winter 2022 - Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal
The Winter 2022 issue of Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, edited by Naush Sabah. The prose in this issue includes Ross Wilson on Louis MacNeice and Birmingham; Seamus Perry on W. H. Auden and Birmingham; Jeremy Wikeley on anti-Semitism and The Waste Land; Camille Ralphs interviews A. E. Stallings; Jacqueline Saphra on poetry and activism; Gerry Cambridge on Pessoa: An Experimental Life. The issue includes poems by Nuzhat Bukhari, Sylee Gore, Katy Mahon, Nick Makoha, and Ian McMillan. See full listing below. Order now to be one of the first to receive a copy in the next few weeks.
Prose
Michael Caines reviews Invitation to View • Gerry Cambridge on Pessoa: An Experimental Life • Fred D’Aguiar reviews The Fire People and More Fiya • Khaled Hakim reviews John Company • Ibrahim Hirsi reviews Quiet and Manorism • Lucy Holme on travels with poetry • Noreen Masud reviews Letters of Basil Bunting • Ian McMillan reviews Sonnets for Albert and The Feeling Sonnets • Oluwaseun Olayiwola reviews Voix Celeste, Temporary Stasis, and Dear Life • Seamus Perry on W. H. Auden and Birmingham • Camille Ralphs interviews A. E. Stallings • Jacqueline Saphra on poetry and protest • Jeremy Wikeley on anti-Semitism and The Waste Land • Ross Wilson on Louis MacNeice and Birmingham
Poets
Alison Binney • Nuzhat Bukhari • Regi Claire • Sylee Gore • Mina Gorji • Philip Hancock • Emily Hasler • Katy Mahon • Shane McCrae • Ciaran McDermott • Dan O’Brien • Kevin O’Farrell • Clare Pollard • Nick Makoha • William Thompson
Editor
Naush Sabah