The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Ce n’est pas une métaphore

Pamphlet Review: Hilary Menos reviews Our Lady of Tyres / Notre dame des pneus by Claire Trévien, translated from English to French by Marie Lando (Broken Sleep Books, 2022)

Mirage

by Jeremy Wikeley — our Friday Poem on 12/08/22

Strung like an archer’s bow

Book Review: Steven Lovatt reviews Unexhausted Time by Emily Berry (Faber, 2022)

Castaway Companions

Castaway: Suzannah Evans chooses poems by Ian McMillan, Marie Howe and Tony Hoagland to take to her desert island

Biscuit, olive branch, small origami frog

Pamphlet Review: Jane Routh reviews The Rake by Tristram Fane Saunders (New Poets List, The Poetry Business, 2022)

Crowned

by Maria Taylor — our Friday Poem on 05/08/22

Inside Spelt

Inside Spelt: The Friday Poem talks to Wendy Pratt, founder and editor of Spelt Magazine

Life and love

Book Review: Matthew Paul reviews Lanyard by Peter Sansom (Carcanet, 2022)

Three Live Canon winners

Pamphlet Review: Emma Simon reviews The Little God of Damage Limitation by Aileen La Tourette, The Country With No Playgrounds by Elena Croitoru, and Urban Minotaur by Mehmet Izbudak, all winners of the Live Canon Pamphlet Competition 2021

The Day Cattle Broke Through the Fence at the Outbreak of the Ukraine War

by Graham Mort — our Friday Poem on 29/07/22

Collaboration and Transformation II

Photo-feature: Clare Best concludes her exploration into creative collaboration

What lies ahead may cause upset

Book Review: Chris Edgoose reviews WE’RE ALL IN IT TOGETHER: poems for a disUNITED KINGDOM edited by Michael Stewart, Steve Ely and Kayleigh Campbell (Grist, 2022).