Olive Custance was, in more ways than one, the better half of Lord Alfred Douglas, writes Ferdi McDermott in this preview from a forthcoming biography.

Jeffrey Meyers examines the trail of Joseph Brodsky's travel poems.

Rrose Sélevy: 'Marcel Duchamp: In the lane there was a blue bull near a white seat. Now explain the motive for the white gloves.' ...

IAN SEED ’s collections of poetry and prose poetry include The Underground Cabaret (Shearsman, 2020), Operations of Water (Knives, Forks & Spoons Press, 2020), and New York Hotel (Shearsman, 2018), a ...

from Book 10 Arab slavers prey upon the tribes. Leopold’s ghost will never sleep, Pinched and prodded everywhere by amputated hands. Allah and Jehovah have both behaved like vultures over Africa, ...

As Alan Wall notes, for both Baudelaire and Benjamin, allegory as a perceptual mode is built into language just as it is into thought.

♦ Welcome to The Fortnightly Review. This is the New Series. A listing of the most recent items may be found on our home page. For a search of the complete archive use the ‘search’ box near the top of ...

from Book 5 Begin with ‘Once upon a time there was a man named Du Dsi Tschun: in his youth a spendthrift who squandered his inheritance. Fond of wine and idling, he drank and continued to drink, And ...

There had been a chapter in Kicking Away the Ladder entitled Fetish. It was the one that had stayed in Charlie’s memory. The creatures of modernity, his father had argued, imagine they have no ...

By PETER RILEY. Say Something Back by Denise Riley. Picador 2016 | 92pp paper | £ 6.99 $ 17.95 THE WORD LYRIC has hovered round Denise Riley’s poetry for as long as I can remember, mainly at her own ...

Anthony O'Hear on Geoffrey Hill's last lamentation, 'The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin', edited by Kenneth Haynes.

from Book 9 (Galatea) “I n gorgeous garments furthermore he did her also decke, And on her fingers put he rings, and cheynes about her necke,” A locket set off her cleavage. In each delicate ear was a ...