Laurie Smith

Laurie Smith works part-time at King’s College London and teaches poetry at the City Lit.

Articles

The New Imagination Laurie Smith explores how poetry may help us to survive. I want to suggest that the poetic imagination is currently undergoing…
Editorial For this edition of Magma we requested poems that seek new ways of engaging with feeling, that respond to Kafka’s…
David Constantine and Adam Zagajewski reviewed David Constantine's Collected Poems (Bloodaxe £12) and Adam Zagajewski's Selected Poems (Faber £12.99) These are representative collections by poets close in…
Beyond Bedlam and beyond In 1997 Anvil Press published Beyond Bedlam, the first mainstream anthology of poems by survivors of mental illness. There…
A deep long crack in reality Laurie Smith in one of two looks at poetic responses to September 11th in Magma 22. The destruction of 11 September…
Seeing the city : Daniel Libeskind and William Blake Laurie Smith visits two exhibitions and finds a need for a poetry of the city. 1 From January to March this year,…
Posthumous poems Laurie Smith reviews Marfan by Peter Reading (Bloodaxe) and Reading Peter Reading by Isobel Martin (Bloodaxe). It seems that no-one quite…