Acumen 111 – January 2025
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Acumen 111 highlights powerful new writing by well-known and emerging poets from across the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the USA, and beyond. Contributors include David Ball, Sarah Feldman, Gareth Culshaw, Julia Deakin, Wendy French, Steve Denehan, Myra Schneider, Colin Pink, Rosie Jackson, Martyn Crucefix, Patrick Osada, Isabel Miles, Jodi Cadenhead, Dinah Livingstone, Liam Aungier, Paul Surman, Caroline Price, David Sergeant, Jan FitzGerald, Chris Rice, Judith Skillman, Mike Everley, Tytti Heikkinen, Michael W. Thomas, Maggie Brookes-Butt, Toby Buckley, Linda Stern Zisquit, and many others.
This issue features an interview with Fred Beake, who examines the influences shaping poetry, including Greek literature, The Gawain Poet, myths such as The Cyclops, many British, French and American poets, historical events, and landscapes, including North Yorkshire on his writing.
Essays include Paul Gittins’s incisive study of working horses in poetry and Robert Griffiths’s exploration of the challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence. Poetry in Translation features works by Ishihara Yoshiro, Anna Akhmatova, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Rudolf Leonhard and others. The Reviews section presents critical insights from Kathleen McPhilemy, Colin Pink, Susan Mackervoy, and Andrew Geary.
