“Bertolt Brecht’s Bedroom”, “A Pizzeria, Firenze” and “The Tube”.
New poems from Paul Murphy.

This may be a little behind the times, Stand not being a magazine I turn to regularly, but I came across the editor John Whale’s defence of ‘the poem’ issued recently. He was responding to Martin Amis’s charge that the…

A new Poem by Robin Allender

I’ve just stumbled across Shawn Cheng’s project to illustrate Cormac McCarthy’s great Blood Meridian: Six Versions of Blood Meridian

I particularly love John Mejias’ linoprints and Sean McCarthy’s lacelike pencilled obscenities, really excellent stuff.

Geometer profiles William Turner Duffin; the musician, producer and instrument maker behind avant metal monsters It’s a Lunken, and “baroque pop” chamber group The Irrepressibles. The first in a series of musician and poet profiles.

“Things that puerile chance causes brusquely to appear” – Peter Philpott responds to Paul Holman’s The Memory of the Drift.
The first in a chain of poet profiles.

Matthew Cole explores the ways in which greater choice, and greater freedom might not actually be the things we need

New writing from Luke Smith, with illustrations by Alice Fletcher

During the last century, to be considered modern was to be seen as being at the forefront of progress and change. Eighty years ago the Modernists fashioned from it an entire movement. Yet increasingly we seem to have fallen out of love with our own modernity, fearing its inventions and distrusting its enticements. Adam Burbage considers where this distrust comes from, and what its implications are for our own culture

James Byrne, editor of The Wolf, talks about risk-taking, the current paucity of poetry in translation and Virginia Woolf