New winter issues of The Poetry Review and Poetry News “Right, first take some weight off yourself. There’s too much pressure from the outside world… During writing your responsibility is to what you’re writing, outside world be gone,” advises Margaret Atwood, interviewed by Elaine Feeney in the Winter 2020 issue of In fact, the world is very much in evidence in the winter Review, which has new poems from the USA, Canada, Australia and across Europe, by Emily Bludworth de Barrios, Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, Phillip B. Williams, Patrick James Errington, L.K. Holt, Meredi Ortega, Petra White, Aleš Šteger and Stella N’Djoku. Other contributing poets include Jason Allen-Paisant, Selima Hill, Helen Tookey and Graham Mort.