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Fall, Nigel Kent's latest pamphlet, eavesdrops on an affair that has devastating consequences for a marriage of ten years. This narrative sequence of poems forensically dissects the complex nature of love. There are moments of thrill and exhilaration, of course, but there are also moments of recklessness, delusion, guilt, shame, loss, despair, madness and more, all captured in authentic, profoundly human poems. Read and be moved. "This is Nige...

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An article on quantum entanglement and the behaviour of sub-atomic particles inspired the beginnings of this poetry conversation. In particular, the idea that once entangled particles remain connected however far apart, a kind of 'particle telepathy'. What does this mean for our connection with loved ones after they've gone? Sarah Thomson and Nigel Kent have a poetry conversation

In the summer of 2018 the story broke of the mistreatment of members of the Windrush generation. As a consequence of the government's attempts to reduce immigration, it transpired that British subjects had been wrongly deported and detained, lost their jobs and homes, and were denied benefits and medical treatment. This story precipitated a poetry conversation.Nigel Kent and Sarah Thomson took the UK Government's creation of a 'Hostile Environ...

Psychopathogen' explores the effect of exceptional times on unexceptional people: a reluctant schoolboy, a shielded grandmother, a middle-aged married couple, a pair of home-working parents and their children. This is not life as we know it. Nigel Kent's sometimes witty and always moving poems show us how life under Lockdown has been transformational, changing our routines, our relationships, our values and our perspective on the world. Underp...

Saudade' captures the zeitgeist of an age seduced by social media with its images of idealised lives. Many of the characters in Nigel Kent's first collection experience a deep sense of dissatisfaction and an irreconcilable longing for someone or something that they have either lost or never had. Sometimes this is because of unrealistic expectations, sometimes because of factors outside their control and sometimes because they have simply made ...