News, Poetry

National Poetry Day: Spring 2024 Pavilions

To celebrate #NationalPoetryDay we're introducing our new collections for 2024 – QuickFire, Slow Burning by Janette Ayachi, Lapwing by Hannah Copley, and Feeling All the Kills by Helen Calcutt. All are available to pre-order on our website and will be published in Spring 2024, marking 10 years of Pavilion Poetry. QuickFire, Slow Burning moves away … Continue reading

Literature, Poetry

‘Play up! play up! and play the game!’ – the vital legacy of poet Henry Newbolt

Playing the Game: Selected Poems of Henry Newbolt edited by John Howlett is the first scholarly edition in more than four decades of one of the most significant poets of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. To celebrate the publication of this new book, Howlett explains why Newbolt was such a figure of importance … Continue reading

Literature

“A word on Academies”: the Beat Generation writers on higher education

The Beats and the Academy: A Renegotiation - an essay collection newly published from Clemson University Press -  explores the tensions between Beat writers and the academic institutions in which they studied and taught. In this blog post the volume's editors Erik Mortenson and Tony Trigilio probe our understanding of the historical tensions between these … Continue reading

Poetry

Nocturne: An Interview with Jodie Hollander

Each year our Pavilion Poetry students assist with the publishing of our new collections, dedicating their time to an individual poet. In this interview, Emily Woolf talks with author Jodie Hollander about her new collection, Nocturne (Pavilion Poetry, 2023) - you can also listen to Jodie’s responses below. There is a link between music and memory … Continue reading