The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

I could have been betterer. Et-fucking-cetera

Theatre Review: Hilary Menos reviews Miracle Theatre’s Everyman, adapted by Carol Ann Duffy, at the Princess Pavillion, Falmouth

I’ll Know I’ve Made It When Going to a LongHorn Steakhouse on a Sunday Evening in the Dead of Winter Doesn’t Depress the Hell Out of Me

by Christine Naprava — our Friday Poem on 27/05/22

Everything You Always Wanted To Know

by Mark Granier — our Friday Poem on 29/04/22

Poems of witness

Book Review: Emma Simon reviews The Underlook by Helen Seymour (Smith|Doorstop, 2021) and The Thoughts by Sarah Barnsley (Smith|Doorstop, 2021)

Castaway Companions

Castaway: Sarah Wimbush chooses poems by Ted Hughes, Liz Berry and Paul Bentley to take to her desert island

He turns to her, she turns to him

Book Review: Annie Fisher reviews Pearls: the complete Mr and Mrs Philpott poems by Helena Nelson (HappenStance, 2022)

Finding the source

Feature: Tom Sastry writes about politics, connection and what poetry is for

Revelations  01/01/2022

by Jane Burn — our Friday Poem on 22/04/2022

Observation

by Nicola Healey — our Friday Poem on 15/04/22

Whichever life we live, it’s the other calls

Book Review: Carl Tomlinson reviews Hotel Anonymous by Mike Barlow (Pindrop, 2021)

Considering the effects

Essay: Matthew Paul looks at poems featuring bowls by Stephen Payne, Pauline Stainer and Ted Walker

Selected Ambient Works

Book Review: Bruno Cooke reviews You've got so many machines, Richard: an anthology of Aphex Twin poetry edited by Rishi Dastidar and Aaron Kent (Broken Sleep, 2022)