Archive – The Friday Poem

Welcome to The Friday Poem Archive page. Poems, features and reviews will all end up here so that their gloriousness will remain readable to all those who seek poetic excellence. Use the search box below to find something specific, or just have a browse.

‘I did my one little verse and the place just went nuts’

Profile: Bruno Cooke profiles Kae Tempest

The Unicyclist of Benghazi

by Christopher James — our Friday Poem on 03/09/21

It’s written and can’t be amended, this book

Book Review: Charlotte Gann reviews The Long Habit of Living by M.R. Peacocke (HappenStance Press, 2021)

Poems for all!

Feature: Editors Andy Brodie and Hilary Menos on their journey to make The Friday Poem accessible to all

Guitar

by Tess Jolly — our Friday Poem on 27/08/21

Three pamphlets: S. D. Curtis, Sarah Hymas and Geraldine Clarkson

Book Review: Richie McCaffery reviews Diary of a Divorce by S. D. Curtis (Arc Publications, 2020), Carla Scarano D'Antonio reviews the hispering by Sarah Hymas (Black Sunflower Poetry Press, 2021) and Hilary Menos reviews Crucifox by Geraldine Clarkson (Verve, 2021)

“I think she is beginning”

Feature: alice hiller on adolescence as self-reclamation beyond sexual abuse in childhood in four poems from bird of winter

Portrait of the Poet as an Artist

by Chris Edgoose — our Friday Poem on 20/08/21

Heft

Feature: Steven Lovatt denounces 'heft'

Body, you are beautiful, you are beautiful

Book Review: Mat Riches reviews When I Think of my Body as a Horse by Wendy Pratt (Smith|Doorstop, 2021)

On Poets and Prizes

Feature: Who gets what, and why? Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young look at the poetry awards system in the USA

The End of the Pier Show

by Helen Ivory — our Friday Poem on 13/08/21

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