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Paying off the Mortgage
By Olivia Byard - 13 June 10:33
Sisters
By Grey Gowrie - 07 June 10:17

A poem by Grey Gowrie.

Can’t and Won’t
By Lydia Davis - 07 June 10:08

A new (very) short story by Lydia Davis.

Drought
By Carrie Etter - 30 May 14:19

A poem by Carrie Etter.

Your Bright Jays
By Robert Selby - 28 May 13:39

A poem by Robert Selby.

Beatrice Webb, presumably refusing to be a deb. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty
“Beatrice Webb refused to be a deb” – and other centenary clerihews
By Craig Brown - 28 May 9:07

The satirist Craig Brown’s first published article appeared in the New Statesman in 1978. He fetes our centenary with choice clerihews praising everyone from Jemima Khan to Malcolm Muggeridge.

It is assumed that "vers libre" exists.
T S Eliot: Reflections on vers libre
By T S Eliot - 22 May 7:36

3 March 1917.

Fires
By John Greening - 02 May 6:39
Here
By Philip Larkin - 25 April 7:15

A poem by Philip Larkin, first published in the New Statesman on 24 November 1961.

Men Talking
By Wendy Cope - 10 April 14:22

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