Year 2 - 2020/21 - Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal
Year Two of Poetry Birmingham saw the journal change to a larger format biannual publication that includes prose features and reviews. Full contents of both issues listed below. Your order will ship once Issue 6 arrives fresh off the press.
ISSUE 6:
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
ISSUE 5:
Prose
Colin Bancroft on Robert Frost • Jonathan Davidson reviews These Numbered Days • Sasha Dugdale on Marina Tsvetaeva • Adrian B. Earle reviews Letters to America, Epiphaneia, and Honeyfish • Khaled Hakim reviews Saffron Jack, States of the Body Produced by Love, and How to Wash a Heart • Rupinder Kaur on Nirupama Dutt • Sara Kazmi reviews Cyanic Pollens and Bulbul Calling • Gregory Leadbetter reviews In a Free State: A Music • André Naffis-Sahely on Ribka Sibhatu • Rochelle Roberts reviews Three Books • Cuilin Sang reviews Antiemetic for Homesickness, 回家 Letters Home, and Moving House • Robert Sheppard reviews Stray Arts (and Other Poems) • Serena Trowbridge reviews Dad, Remember You Are Dead and Veritas • Roger Robinson & David Wheatley in conversation
Poets
Latifa Akay • Colin Bancroft • A. K. Blakemore • Helen Bowell • Theodoros Chiotis • Jane Commane • Hannah Copley • Jonathan Davidson • Nirupama Dutt • Fatima El-Kalay • Chloe Elliott • Sarah Fletcher • Daniel Fraser • Dai George • Seán Hewitt • Katy Mack • Amit Majmudar • Nick Makoha • Cynthia Miller •André Naffis-Sahely • Sam Quill • Mark Russell • Ribka Sibhatu • Jack Solloway • Marvin Thompson • George Ttoouli • David Wheatley • Warda Yassin • Sidrah Zubair
Editors
Suna Afshan & Naush Sabah