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Poetry

October 2024

  • Family affair … Rock, Paper, Grenade, adapted from her husband’s novel by Tsilyk and starring their son.

    ‘I want space for jokes’: how film-maker Iryna Tsilyk captures surreal life in Ukraine

  • ‘A gamut of present and past life’ … on the shortlist, l to r, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Raymond Antrobus and Carl Phillips.

    TS Eliot prize for poetry shortlist contains ‘a strong strain of elegy’

September 2024

  • The collection traces of tires.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Four boys, maybe five … by Tal Nitzán

  • Alan Garner at home in Blackden, Cheshire.

    Book of the day
    Powsels and Thrums by Alan Garner review – the magus speaks

  • Detail from a linocut by Andrew Judd for Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditations.

    Other lives
    Andrew Judd obituary

  • Bathing a ventilated Coronavirus patient - in the The Intensive Care Unit. The ICU has gone from one 16 bed ICU (now for Covid-19 patients) to include a second multi bed ICU capable of expansion (for non Covid patients) referred to as the satellite ICU in what was previously the theatre recovery area. The Covid ICU has treated around 40 patients to date. The Infectious Diseases Ward (ID ward). Patients in this hospital will have been referred by their GP, and will be admitted to one of the wards. If they deteriorate they will be admitted to the ICU unit for more invasive therapies. All UK hospitals are now thinking about how they can restart all their routine work which has been put on ice due to the coronavirus pandemic. Simultaneously they have to be prepared to face a potential second wave or spike of Coronavirus patients. Meanwhile it is feared that the population in lockdown may be harbouring other serious conditions that they have been afraid to present which could now create an increase in non covid emergencies. Areas of the hospital have been transformed and areas repurposed. The SARSCoV-2 pandemic has changed the ICU almost completely. Medical staff have redeployed from ophthalmology, dermatology, rehabilitation medicine, radiology, theatre recovery, research nurses and theatre nurses to help in intensive care to fight the pandemic casualties. All staff are now wearing ‘enhanced PPE’ – FFP-3 masks, visors, hats, full length gowns and gloves. Entry and exit to the unit is strictly monitored to make sure all entering and leaving ‘don’ and ‘doff’ their PPE correctly. There are thick sheets of green-blue plastic at each entry and exit point, which need to be zipped and unzipped to let staff in or out – the clinical area within these barriers is nicknamed ‘the bubble’. For now there are no visitors, families must receive updates on their critically ill loved ones by phone. Dr Rosaleen Baruah is a Consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthesia Dr Rosie Baruah says "In the two-week period between our first planning meeting and the admission of our first patient, we had to design new rotas for all tiers of medical staff, make plans to expand our critical care capacity several-fold, and upskill our anaesthetic, theatre nursing and medical colleagues in looking after critically ill patients. They did not ask for this – they did not choose to work in critical care. But this is what they now have to do, and they have faced the challenge with enthusiasm and with good humour. It cannot be easy, working in an unfamiliar role in such circumstances.” "We will remember how colleagues from all over the hospital came and offered help. We will remember how families took time to thank us for the work we were doing even amongst their own anguish and fear. We will remember how we, as a team, supported each other though this extraordinary time. Our ICU looks different now, but sometime soon this will become a memory of how our ICU looked – then." The Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland UK 07/05/2020 © COPYRIGHT PHOTO BY MURDO MACLEOD All Rights Reserved Tel + 44 131 669 9659 Mobile +44 7831 504 531 Email: m@murdophoto.com STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY See details at http://www.murdophoto.com/T%26Cs.html No syndication, no redistribution. sgealbadh, A22N6S

    Agimat by Romalyn Ante review – spells to ward off trauma

  • Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Llyfr Geirfa fy Nhad / My Father’s Vocabulary Book by Gwyneth Lewis

  • Making sense of it
    The words of the master Persian poets carry a mystical power – and can create serious transformation

    Ali Hammoud

  • Australia will get a poet laureate next year. Here’s what needs to change first

    Sarah Holland-Batt

  • Brief letters
    Beating Aldi cashiers at their own game

  • Brief letters
    Crystal Palace’s radical gardeners

  • Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Good-bye by Walter de la Mare

  • Trust hopes to turn William Blake’s cottage into a museum

  • Australian arts in focus
    Prime Minister’s Literary awards 2024: Andre Dao wins $80,000 for debut novel Anam

  • Sky in a Small Cage review – beauty and bafflement in opera inspired by Sufi mystic Rumi

  • Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: The Journalist by Grahame Davies

  • ‘After Rwanda, I felt I needed philosophical more than psychological help’: journalist Lindsey Hilsum on war and the consolation of poetry

  • On my radar
    On my radar: Raymond Antrobus’s cultural highlights

  • Poetry roundup
    The best recent poetry – review roundup

  • Surréalisme review – monstrous, deviant, glorious fun as the movement hits 100

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