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The best poetry books of 2021 so far The most interesting recent poetry collections travel the world, from Welsh churches to refugee camps in Lebanon, via a Romanian orphanage Maria Stadnickas latest collection is Buried Gods Metal Prophets Credit: Maria Stadnicka/Guillemot Press Buried Gods Metal Prophets by Maria Stadnicka ★★★★☆ Welcome to “the Sputnik Wing for irrecoverables”, St Joseph’s Orphanage, Romania, where the state is doing all it can to cover up the true nature of ...

offers views inside and out of the bird that inspired ‘Cock Pheasant’, his wonderful poem just published in the winter issue of The Poetry Review. Both belligerent and fugitive, the bird is impelled to confront and is also deeply perturbed by the ghost self he spies in the kitchen window – offering instructive anthropomorphic reflections on our own susceptible sense of self. “Wild creatures have irreducible quiddity. So do we – a species whose needs, beliefs and anxieties generate t...

The Best Australian Poems and Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry. She is currently finalising her first poetry collection. Rushika Wick is a poet and doctor with an interest in intersections between sociology and impacts on the body. In particular, how these affect women and children. She is also developing a practice of visual poetry and making object-poems. She has work in various anthologies and magazines including Ambit, Datableed and forthcoming in Magma and SAND (Berlin). She has ...