The Dark Horse is in the tradition of the finest poetry magazines: engaged, at times contrarian, and with a commitment to excellence as we perceive it. We attempt to honour literary quality, not literary fashion. The contemporary poetry scene, for all its colour, has a short memory which has less to do with quality than with fashion. ![]() We also love to highlight excellent yet neglected or overlooked figures. We have published new work by established poets including Edwin Morgan, Anne Stevenson, Wendy Cope, Anthony Hecht, Douglas Dunn, Robert Nye, Richard Wilbur, Kay Ryan, Vicki Feaver, Matthew Sweeney and many more, but are at least as proud of our discoveries, whether of individual poems or of poets previously unknown to us. These can be found in the magazine archive. Dutton are the most extensive of their kind available. At times these are groundbreaking: our interviews with, for example, Philip Hobsbaum and the poet-scientist G. Comics :: Dark Horse Comics Buy digital comics: Newsletter Sign-up Follow Dark Horse Comics: Share this page: Editor's Pick Masters of the Universe: Masterverse 2 (E.J Su Variant Cover) New Releases Masters of the Universe: Masterverse 2 Masters of the Universe: Masterverse 2 (E. We publish, too, a mix of stylish and engaged essays, reviews, interviews, polemics and appreciations. Not being evangelical or overly partisan, we also print compelling free verse. While we are glad to print poetry in metre and rhyme, we remember Randall Jarrell’s “Where poems have hearts, a metronome is beating here.” We believe that we can recognise poems of sound heart. We are, by turns, or sometimes simultaneously, serious, wry, humorous, iconoclastic. Not that we equate poetry with solemnity. ![]() We understand that hype, in its presumption of consensus, is irrelevant to readers of any individuality. Your palate will be tantalised with dark cherries and mint with. We like to think that the journal is characterised by a clear-sighted scepticism and an eye for the genuine. This cabernet is all about juicy texture and dark fruits, with a seamless, balanced palate. It is an international literary magazine committed to British, Irish and American poetry, and is published from Scotland. The Dark Horse was founded in 1995 by the Scottish poet Gerry Cambridge.
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