Rogue Strands

‘ Long-awaited debut ’ is a cheesy cliché in the poetry world, but it’s actually true of Hard Drive (Carcanet, 2023), Paul Stephenson’s fi...

Sixteen years after my first visit to the festival as a member of the audience, I can't quite believe that I'll be giving a reading ...

There's a school of thought that claims poems can only be any good if they "need" to be written. The argument goes that any po...

Until this week, I hadn't realised just how much skill is involved in interviewing someone. Paul Stephenson, who has just published an i...

In a juster world, Paul Stephenson would already be recognised as one of the best contemporary poets around.  If his previous two pamph...

Paul Stephenson’s pamphlet, The Days That Followed Paris (Happen Stance Press, 2016), is riven by tensions: traditional versus modern, co...

The new issue of The Compass is in the process of being posted (the editors put it up gradually over the course of a number of days), and m...

Paul Stephenson is a linguist, and this background shines through in his first pamphlet, Those People (Smith-Doorstep, 2015). Stephenson’s...

I'm delighted to report that Inventing Truth , my first Happen Stance pamphlet, has been reviewed by Paul Stephenson in Issue 49 of The...