Issue 8 - Summer 2022 - Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal
The Summer 2022 issue of Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, edited by Naush Sabah, due to be published in June. The prose in this issue includes translation features from Pahari and Hazaragi; Jeremy Wikeley writes about the pastoral and ecopoetry; Camille Ralphs interviews Christopher Reid and Fred D’Aguiar; Kinara Collective write about their creative practice; Gregory Leadbetter writes on the mask in poetry; and we have a wide range of reviews including a biography of Ghalib, the collected writings of Assia Wevill, and Roy Fisher’s The Citizen. See full listing below. Pre-order now to be one of the first to recieve a copy.
The Summer 2022 issue of Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, edited by Naush Sabah, due to be published in June. The prose in this issue includes translation features from Pahari and Hazaragi; Jeremy Wikeley writes about the pastoral and ecopoetry; Camille Ralphs interviews Christopher Reid and Fred D’Aguiar; Kinara Collective write about their creative practice; Gregory Leadbetter writes on the mask in poetry; and we have a wide range of reviews including a biography of Ghalib, the collected writings of Assia Wevill, and Roy Fisher’s The Citizen. See full listing below. Pre-order now to be one of the first to recieve a copy.
The Summer 2022 issue of Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, edited by Naush Sabah, due to be published in June. The prose in this issue includes translation features from Pahari and Hazaragi; Jeremy Wikeley writes about the pastoral and ecopoetry; Camille Ralphs interviews Christopher Reid and Fred D’Aguiar; Kinara Collective write about their creative practice; Gregory Leadbetter writes on the mask in poetry; and we have a wide range of reviews including a biography of Ghalib, the collected writings of Assia Wevill, and Roy Fisher’s The Citizen. See full listing below. Pre-order now to be one of the first to recieve a copy.
Prose
Nabeela Ahmed on writing in Pahari • Sarala Estruch, Gita Ralleigh, and Rushika Wick on South Asian women’s poetry collective Kinara • Kit Fan reviews Lurex, Shoulder Tap, and warm blooded things • Sana Goyal reviews Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head • John Greening on Englishness • Amaan Hyder reviews Limbic and Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful • Waqas Khwaja reviews Ghalib: A Wilderness at my Doorstep: A Critical Biography • Gregory Leadbetter on poetry and the mask • Camille Ralphs interviews Christopher Reid and Fred D’Aguiar • Shrukria Razaei on preserving and translating Hazaragi poetry • Declan Ryan reviews Field Requiem and To Star the Dark • Eva Salzman reviews The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill • David Wheatley reviews The Citizen • Jeremy Wikeley on ecopoetry
Poets
Suna Afshan • Nabeela Ahmed • Tammy Armstrong • Alison Brackenbury • Jo Bratten • Lewis Buxton • Fred D’Aguiar • Adrian B. Earle • Sarala Estruch • Rebecca Goss • Kathryn Gray • Khaled Hakim • Ramona Herdman • Ibrahim Hirsi • Olivia Hodgson • Nicholas Hogg • Amaan Hyder • Zannah Kearns • Anna Kisby • Charlotte Shevchenko Knight • Zaffar Kunial • Gita Ralleigh • Christopher Reid • Sharif Saeedi • Jacqueline Saphra • Martha Sprackland • Matthew Stewart • Rory Waterman • Sarah Westcott • David Wheatley • Rushika Wick
Editor
Naush Sabah