Lytton Smith is Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Plymouth University. He is the author of a book of poems, The All-Purpose Magical Tent, and two translated novels from the Icelandic.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
On Galway Kinnell
Poet Galway Kinnell passed away on October 28, 2014. We asked a number of poets and critics to reflect on his life and his work....
In Reply to Hanif Kureishi, from the Alpine Ski Slopes of the Winter Paralympics
If we don’t learn to listen to the body, which has elements we cannot know exist, we cannot be our selves....
Answers on a Postcard: Mobile Citizenship
Lytton Smith on his island....
We Can Be Heroes: The Winter Poetry Olympics Part IX: On Domestic Labor
LARB returns with a sequel to its “Poetry at the Olympics” series, featuring poets from across America responding to the Winter Olympics at Sochi....
We Can Be Heroes: The Winter Poetry Olympics Part VIII: Curling and the Poetics of Friction
TEAM GB has slipped down the rankings, in both the Men’s and Women’s competitions. Defeats to Norway and Switzerland ...
We Can Be Heroes: The Winter Poetry Olympics Part VII: On Curling as Poetic Line
LARB returns with a sequel to its “Poetry at the Olympics” series, featuring poets from across America responding to the Winter Olympics at Sochi....
Answers on a Postcard: Justice Among Us (Citizens)
Dover is the limit – is it not — “Fugue,” David Herd ON A CLEAR DAY, standing on the cliffs at Dover, a ...
Refusing Simplicity: Encountering Seamus Heaney
There was a sense of an almost formal completion. But also a recognition that nothing can be learned, that to be ...
Answers on a Postcard: Informed Poetry
Tom Chivers’s recent anthology promises a corrective to the assumption that poetic form is a fixed thing, an inherited corset....
Answers on a Postcard: Here in the Place I Happen Not to Be
To the Arctic in search of poetry...
Answers on a Postcard: Departures, or Some Accidental British Debuts
SHE LEAVES, then later reflects, “I’ve had to do a lot less explaining myself out here.” ¤ ...
Writing in Place: Projections of Landscape
On two books of poems titled 'Gravesend'...
Writing in Place: A Poetry of the Gulfstream
nbsp; WhyEnglish? For the difference’s sake? As lingua franca? Coincidence? — ...
Answers on a Postcard: British Enthusiasm and the Olympic Dismount
The aftermath of the after-party of the London Games...
Answers on a Postcard: Deryn Rees-Jones’s Poetry
A letter from London, on the lyric....
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the XXX Olympiad (Part 7)
The Epilogues...
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the 2012 Summer Games
Limbering Up: John Keats as Handball Olympian...
From the Other Coast
On poetry and riot....
