The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Escape

by Rachel Burns — our Friday Poem on 20/01/23

Pierre Bonnard and the art of writing poetry

Feature: Rowan Bell on Pierre Bonnard and the art of writing poetry

Let the morbid fancy roam

Book Review: Rory Waterman reviews Donald Davie, Selected Poems, ed. Sinéad Morrissey (Carcanet, 2022)

Something beginning with earth

Book Review: Maggie Mackay reviews Desperate Fishwives by Lindsay Macgregor (Molecular Press, Geneva, 2022)

Sisters,

by Karen Smith — our Friday Poem on 13/01/23

Castaway Companions

Castaway: Kathy Pimlott choses poems by e.e. cummings, Keats and Mimi Khalvati for her desert island stay

A change in the momentum of the world

Book Review: Victoria Moul reviews The Thirteenth Angel by Philip Gross (Bloodaxe, 2022)

More sea than land, more sky than earth

Pamphlet Review: Jane Routh reviews After Clare by William Thompson (New Walk 2022) and A Separate Appointment by Rebecca Farmer (New Walk, 2022)

Chapwench

by Jay Whittaker — our Friday Poem on 06/01/23

We have to find the right authors and the right commercial strategy to recover. It may take us five years

Feature: The Friday Poem talks to Chris Hamilton-Emery, poet and director of Salt Publishing

In the Light of Rocket Flares

Book Review: Maryann Corbett reviews One Hundred Visions of War, a translation by Alfred Nicol of Cent Visions de Guerre by Julien Vocance (Wiseblood Books, 2022)

Language walking across borders

Pamphlet Review: D.A. Prince reviews Colours & Tea (Human) by Tomi Adegbayibi (Muscaliet Press, 2022)