The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Do words help?

Feature: Consultant Clinical Psychologist and poet Khadija Rouf explores how poetry can be used to heal trauma

Surfers, swimmers and drowned sailors

Book Review: Hilary Menos reviews The Out-Islands by Martin Edwards (Smokestack, 2021)

Hotel Anonymous

by Mike Barlow — our Friday Poem on 25/06/21

Poetry editors have a love/hate relationship with poetry

In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Helena Nelson, poet, editor and founder of HappenStance Press and Sphinx Review

A man was shot not far from where we live

Book Review: Emma Simon reviews Little Piece of Harm by Chris Jones (Longbarrow, 2020)

beyond the gate

by Clare Best — our Friday Poem on 18/06/21

Wild Hearted Woman

Feature: Helen Ivory writes on belonging, identity and finding a voice, and wonders whether hers has a Luton accent

An England both fertile and funereal

Book Review: Richie McCafferey reviews The Coming-Down Time by Robert Selby (Shoestring, 2020)

Las Cigüeñas

by Matthew Stewart — our Friday Poem on 11/06/21

You who found your dream but could not spell it

Profile: Bruno Cooke meets Spoken Word poet Joelle Taylor and discusses activism, education and the power of poetry

You can never know for certain whose head you’re in

Book Review: Mat Riches reviews RENDANG by Will Harris (Granta, 2020), winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2020

A literature that is not made of literature

Book Review: Hilary Menos reviews How To Wash A Heart by Bhanu Kapil (Liverpool University Press, 2020), winner of the TS Eliot Prize 2020