Butcher’s Dog magazine was set to close this year, but readers have rallied to fund a year’s reprieve. It’s one of many that get by with few resources but love
Contributions by Russell Brand and Maxine Peake feature in Poetry for the Many, which aims to help readers shake off the idea that verse is only for ‘posh people’
The award-winning poet and author on bringing his career to a meaningful end, processing the death of his mother via verse, and his love of mixed martial arts
Up Late by Nick Laird; Women in Comfortable Shoes by Selima Hill; Blood Feather by Patrick McGuinness; You Don’t Have What It Takes to Be My Nemesis by CAConrad; Before We Go Any Further by Tristram Fane Saunders; A Method, A Path by Rowan Evans
A jazz poet and countercultural hero who wrote lyrics for Cream, Brown died last week aged 82. In this interview at sessions last month for his final LP, he explained why he was making art until the end