Castle Poetry

New poems, plus occasional reviews, articles, podcast etc

A long, narrow stone windowsill in a castle-like tower holds a single, charcoal-gray hardcover poetry collection, closed and aligned perfectly with the edge. Outside the tall, arched window, a distant, softly blurred landscape of rolling hills and misty trees stretches under a pale dawn sky. Cool, silvery morning light pours through the glass, grazing the book’s textured cloth cover and subtly highlighting its understated embossed title. Shot from a low, oblique angle in photographic realism, the composition uses leading lines of the windowsill to draw the viewer’s gaze toward the horizon. The mood is solitary, introspective, and elegantly restrained, suggesting the quiet power of reading poetry in a secluded retreat.

Explore

castlepoetrymagazine
1–2 minutes

Browse previous content below

Editorials:

First Editorial, April 2026: A Cultural Renaissance

Editorial, Autumn 2026

Poems:

Extracts from On Warwick Castle by Jane Holland

Islay Born by Barbi Akroyd

On Not Mending Wall by Abigail Ottley

An Entanglement by Peter Cowlam

Elizabeth Barton by Abigail Ottley

Abandoned Campsite by Ella Walsworth-Bell

Sleeping Together by Simon Williams

Slate by Ann Foweraker

A Drone, Downed (On the Shores of The Hope) by Joseph Long

Pier by Jeff Skinner

Launceston by Alexander Bayon

Welsh Not by Catherine Bowness

Church Cove to Porthleven by Jeff Gallagher

Castle Poetry Podcast:

Episode One with guest poet Olive Mills

Episode Two with guest poet Anna Chorlton

Episode Three with guest poet Clare Mulley

Reviews:

“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece”: poet Simon Williams reviewed

“A wren’s wishbone”: poet Susan Taylor reviewed

“Please continue to hold”: poet Abigail Ottley reviewed