The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

The Friday Poem archive

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 don’t think Death has used a PlayStation before

Book Review: Bruno Cooke reviews Hit Points — an anthology of video game poetry, edited by Aaron Kent and Matthew Haigh (Broken Sleep Books, 2021)

How the flat with the red door swallowed me whole

Lyric Essay: Ways of Looking by Kim Moore

Leonard Cohen’s unknown teacher speaks from his strings

by Amlanjyoti Goswami — our Friday Poem on 06/08/21

In the end it was a matter of woodworm

Book Review: Steven Lovatt reviews Restorations by Ros Hudis (Seren, 2021)

Castaway Companions

Feature: Castaway poet Ben Wilkinson chooses three poems to accompany him to a desert island.

Our Children’s Childhoods

by Charlotte Gann — our Friday Poem on 30/07/21

Three pamphlets: Selima Hill, Natalie Shaw and Rachael Matthews

Book Review: Hilary Menos reviews three pamphlets: Fridge by Selima Hill (The Rialto, 2021), Oh Be Quiet by Natalie Shaw (Against the Grain, 2020) and do not be lulled by the dainty starlike blossom by Rachael Matthews (The Emma Press, 2021)

Do what you are going to do and I will tell about it

Feature: Katrina Naomi writes about finding permission to write, violence in poetry, and what makes a happy life

Lone Wolf

by Anthony Wilson — our Friday Poem on 23/07/21

Literature is larger than a single set of people or the taste of one editor

In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Amy Wack, Poetry Editor at Seren Books, about finding new poets, funding under austerity, and what it's like to be a poetry gatekeeper

Visions of Juana

Book Review: Mat Riches reviews Citadel by Martha Sprackland (Liverpool University Press, 2020)

Part of me can’t hear the moon calling anymore

by Emma Simon — our Friday Poem for 16/07/21