Our TENTH ISSUE of The Scores, kicked off with a tantalising Letter to a Young Poet and to the bodily world by Melissa Lee-Houghton, includes our third Special Feature, this one making a home for to work by writers who are disabled, d/Deaf, neurodivergent, and/or experience chronic pain. This issue showcases new poetry by Jai Hamid Bashir, Polly Atkin, Gaia Thomas, Daisy Behagg, Julia Guez, and Nathan Spoon, new prose by Willy Conley and Katarzyna Szaulińska, translated by Mark Tardi, an excerpt of a new play by Hannah Lavery, reviews of new work by Dora Malech and Harriet Mercer, and heaps more.

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Letters to a Young Poet

George Szirtes, from Issue Eight, Summer 2020

Ruth Padel, from Issue Seven, Winter 2020

Annie Freud, from Issue Six, Summer 2019

Marwa Helal, from Issue Five, Winter 2018

Matthew Caley, from Issue Four, Summer 2018.

Patricia Smith, from Issue Three, Winter 2017

Lessons from the School of Night

Lesson #8: Fiona Moore Listen to the full interview.

Lesson #7: Sinéad Morrissey Listen to the full interview.

Lesson #6: Paul Muldoon – Listen to the full interview.

Lesson #5: David HarsentListen to the full interview.

Lesson #4: Douglas DunnListen to the full interview.