by Mike | Feb 1, 2022 | Guest Poems
The Marias of Lisbon On my winter morning run to the basilica, I slow and pause to read washing lines – strung from rooftops, reaching window to window across scrunched alleys, they marry opposed households. The Marias of Lisbon have threaded their own map through the...
by Mike | Sep 8, 2021 | Acumen Issues
Editorial Poems: Michael Henry, Aviva Dautch, Dinah Livingstone, James Aitchison, Peter Sutton, Rosie Jackson, Jennifer A. McGowan Interview with Gillian Clarke – David Perman Poems: Patrick Osada, Lisa Lopresti, Jeff Phelps, Francis O’Hare, Dennis Tomlinson, Shanta...
by Mike | May 8, 2021 | Acumen Issues
Editorials Poems: Mimi Khalvati, Michael Henry, Sergey Gerasimov, James Deahl,Bridget Thomasin, Helen Ashley, Rachael Clyne, Sue Spiers, John Arnold,Manjula Datta, Chris Woods, Patrick Osada, Malcolm Povey, TrishHarewood, James Aitchison. Interview with Patricia...
by Mike | Jan 18, 2016 | News
Acumen would like to congratulate Sarah Howe on winning the 2015 T.S. Eliot award. Her book Loop of Jade is her first collection and she was presented with the £20,000 cheque at a ceremony at the V & A on Monday evening. The poems in the book sprang out of a...
by Mike | Jan 18, 2016 | News
Before the new website was even up and running, young writers were sending in their poems for possible publication. Though we can’t publish everyone that arrives in the in-box, we will try to post the poems of young poets regularly. I feel that this is a page of the...
