Jenny Lindsay critiques fear and factionalism in Scottish poetry through the lens of her own experiences

Rob A. Mackenzie coolly debunks blogger Dave Coates’ accusatory opinions on the poetry of Toby Martinez de las Rivas

Ross Wilson on ideological criticism and its dangers

Julie Kane memorializes Anne Sexton, her teacher at Boston University in the mid-1970s

Kathryn Gray on the effects of poetry prizes on poetry culture 

Dana Gioia on the primal origins of poetry outside of the academy

Gerry Cambridge on Ted Hughes’s massive Collected Poems

Anthony Thwaite assesses Jeremy Noel-Tod’s updating of Ian Hamilton’s Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry