Luke Kennard – Sabotage

Pamphlets Poetry Uncategorized

Cold Fire: Poetry inspired by David Bowie edited by Alex Bell and John Canfield

August 18, 2017October 21, 2017 Karen Goodwin Abigail Parry, Alex Bell, Amy Key, Charles Whalley, Chrissy Williams, Dai George, Francine Elena, Jane Yeh, Jemima Foxtrot, John Canfield, Jon Stone, Julia Bird, Kirsten Irving, Luke Kennard, Mark Waldron, Melissa Lee-Houghton, Niall O'Sullivan, Rishi Dastidar, Simon Barraclough, The Rialto

-Reviewed by Charles Whalley– In the 1973 concert captured on film for the documentary Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from

Festival Spoken Word

Verve Poetry Festival, 16-19th February 2017

March 25, 2017 Editor Amerah Saleh, Anna Freeman, Anthony Anaxagorou, Bernhard Christianssen, Bethany Slinn, Bohdan Piasecki, Charley Genever, Clive Birnie, Cynthia Miller, Daljit Nagra, Dean Atta, Deanna Rodger, Emma Wright, Fran Lock, Hannah Silva, Helen Mort, Hibaq Osman, Isobel Dixon, Jane Commane, Jess Green, Jonathan Davidson, Kareem Parkins-Brown, Katrina Naomi, Kim Moore, Luke Kennard, Mona Arshi, Nina Lewis, Raymond Antrobus, Richard O'Brien, Roz Goddard, Sabrina Mahfouz, Sarah Howe, Skye Hawkins, Spoken Word, Stuart Bartholomew, Susannah Dickie, Toby Campion, Vanessa Kisuule, Verve Poetry Festival, Waterstones

-Reviewed by Nina Lewis– I love poetry festivals, this new one promised a marked difference. One of the leading principles of

Cain by Luke Kennard

September 17, 2016September 15, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Cain, Humphrey Astley, Luke Kennard, Penned in the Margins

– Reviewed by Humphrey Astley – Luke Kennard’s Cain ought to establish him as the Stewart Lee of poetry: he’s an arch-ironist

Anthology Poetry

Best British Poetry 2015 edited by Emily Berry

August 4, 2016August 8, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Alex MacDonald, Aria Aber, Astrid Alben, Best British Poetry 2015, Emily Berry, Jesse Darling, Kit Buchan, Luke Kennard, Rachael Allen, Salt, Selima Hill, Sophie Mayer

– Reviewed by Jenna Clake – In her introduction to Best British Poetry 2015, Emily Berry states that when she was

Anthology Poetry

Campaign In Poetry ed. by Rachel Piercey & Emma Wright

May 7, 2015May 14, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Anna Kisby, Campaign In Poetry, Clare Pollard, Ellie Danak, Emma Wright, Ewan Stevenson, Holly Hopkins, James Trevelyan, Luke Kennard, Mona Arshi, Rachel Long, Rachel Piercey, Rosie Miles, Sohini Basak, Stephanie Arsoska, The Emma Press

– Reviewed by Sohini Basak – Strikingly, the poems in Campaign in Poetry are as much about contesting lack of concern about democracy as

Anthology Poetry

Maps & Legends: Poems to Find Your Way By, ed. Jo Bell and Jane Commane

April 17, 2014April 17, 2014 Editor Alistair Noon, Angela France, Bloodaxe, Charles Boyle, Charles Whalley, Chris McCabe, Claire Crowther, David Hart, David Morley, Deborah Tyler-Bennett, Jane Commane, Jeremy Poynting, Jo Bell, Luke Kennard, Matt Nunn, Michael Schmidt, Nine Arches Press, Phil Brown, Pringles, Ruth Larbey, Salt, Simon Thirsk, Simon Turner, Tom Chivers, Tony Williams

-Reviewed by Charles Whalley– The word ‘anthology’ comes from Greek for the gathering of flowers, for putting together garlands. Maps

‘More Sawn-Off Tales’ by David Gaffney

August 3, 2013 Editor Carol Ann Duffy, David Gaffney, flash fiction, Luke Kennard, More Sawn-Off Tales, Ralph Jones, salt publishing, Sawn-Off Tales

-Reviewed by Ralph Jones– Short, Sharp Bursts of Weird Give David Gaffney 150 words and you’ll be holding his hand

Magazine Online Magazine

Missing Slate #8 (Winter 2013)

June 18, 2013 Editor Anna Selby, Aysha Raja, Caleb Klaces, Heather Phillipson, Issuu, J.S. Watts, James Byrne, Jen Hadfield, Jon Stone, Kathryn Simmonds, Kindle, Liz Berry, Lorraine Mariner, Luke Kennard, Melanie Challenger, Ryan Van Winkle, S.J. Fowler, The Great Gatsby, Toby Martinez De Las Rivas

-Reviewed by J.S.Watts– I had better begin by stating, for the record, that I am a traditionalist when it comes to

Saboteur Awards

Saboteur Awards 2013: Fiction

June 5, 2013 Editor Alan Cunningham, All the Bananas I've Never Eaten, Alliterati, Armchair/Shotgun, Ashley Stokes, Bartleby Snopes, Best European Fiction 2013, Controller, Count from Zero to One Hundred, Dalkey Archive, Django Wylie, Fog and other Stories, Front Lines, Holophin, Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts, Laury A. Egan, Luke Kennard, Lummox, My Mother Was An Upright Piano, Overheard: Stories to read aloud, Penned in the Margins, Post-Experimentalism, Richard T. Watson, Rising, Saboteur Awards, Saboteur Awards 2013, Sally Ashton, Superbard, Tania Hershman, The Flood, The Middle, The Syllabus of Errors, Tony Williams, Unthank Books, Unthology, Valley Press

-In which Richard T. Watson sums up the Fiction side of the Saboteur 2013 Awards– The first of the Fiction

All of the Above Saboteur Awards

Saboteur Awards 2013: The Winners!

May 30, 2013 Editor Adventures in Form, Alan Cunningham, Bang Said the Gun!, Catechism Poems for Pussy Riot, Charlotte Newman, Dan Cockrill, Estuary, Jibba Jabba, Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts, Lucy Ayrton, Luke Kennard, Martin Figura, Overheard: Stories to read aloud, Penned in the Margins, Penning Perfumes, Poetry Parnassus, Rising, Saboteur Awards 2013, Sarah Hymas, Shake the Dust, Still, Tania Hershman, Tony Williams, Unthank Books, Unthology, Vanessa Kisuule

A more in-depth post will come soon, with comments from voters, logos for each winner, pictures and links to videos