The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

The End of the Pier Show

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

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, 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

Castaway: Ben Wilkinson chooses poems by Louis MacNeice, Stevie Smith and John Keats to take to his 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

Pamphlet 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

Visions of Juana

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