In March 2026, the Poetry Archive was delighted to launch a very special poetry collection in partnership with the distinguished Cambridge poet, Richard Berengarten. ‘The Death of Children’ features 40 versions of Richard’s original poem, written in English, and now…
JOHN IRVING CLARKE Edward, they say, Edward, this is not the end of anything, this is a new chapter opening. The ranked high-backed chairs in uniform green, the parked walking frames and the assemblage of vacant faces is a new…
ROGAN WOLF The Other Side I dreamed last night I crossed a bridge and was terrified by the strangeness of the other side, how dangerous it felt to know so little of what to say and where to hide my…
SILVIA PIO A few weeks before the wedding, my best friend’s daughter decided to break up with her boyfriend, with whom she had been sharing a flat for two years. What to do with the stuff in the flat? Furniture…
SILVIA PIO She saw the bottom where the water was sweet, surrendered her body to the waves she feared as a gift, and dreamed the dreams she had kept to give as presents wrapped with indecision (and you used to…
ROGAN WOLF A new collection of 25 English poems for children has just gone online. It is new in more ways than one. Each poem is carefully matched with an original abstract painting by an artist called Rachel Stevens, who…
Literary translators are already experiencing how the automation of intellectual work and human language affects their field and society as a whole: both art and democracy are under threat. We, the literary translators’ associations of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, along…
