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John Redmond’s first collection of poems, Thumb’s Width, is out this month.
Slowly/SwiftlyMichael Hofmann praises James Schuyler
Who has the gall?Frank Kermode on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Can we conceive of Beatrice ‘snapping’ like a shrew?Helen Vendler: How not to do Dante
Always the BridesmaidTerry Castle: Sappho
Awful but CheerfulGillian White: The Tentativeness of Elizabeth Bishop