On 16 July, The Poetry Society was delighted to present the launch readings for the Summer 2025 issue of The Poetry Review, edited by Wayne Holloway-Smith, with guest readers Kaveh Akbar, Bonnie Hancell, Jacob Polley and Martha Sprackland. In this one-poem extract, Bonnie Hancell reads 'Generations of Destroyers'. One-poem extracts of each reading are additionally available to watch on Vimeo. If you are a Poetry Society member, you can watch the readings in full via our Members' Area. | The Poet

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