The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Let trigons be trigons

Book Review: Mat Riches reviews The Windmill Proof by Stephen Payne (HappenStance, 2021)

Mottephobia

by Heidi Beck — our Friday Poem on 24/12/21

We have never seen worse

Feature: Emma Simon asks poets about good rejections, bad rejections, and rejections that leave you hanging on forever

Go long

Book Review: Hilary Menos reviews Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard (Penned in the Margins, 2021)

A Harp So Strung with Rain

by Michael Grieve — our Friday Poem on 17/12/21

Two Poetries: Spender, Poetry and Ideology

Essay: Chris Edgoose considers Stephen Spender, revolutionary poetry and the need for trust between writers and readers of poetry

I was nothing but a heretic cormorant

Book Review: Rory Waterman reviews The European Eel by Steve Ely (Longbarrow, 2021)

I think you get it, John

by Jill Munro — our Friday Poem on 10/12/21

Beyond the Bubble

Feature: Matthew Stewart asks how poetry can reach out to a wider readership

Three pamphlets: Richie McCaffery, Phoebe Stuckes and Julia Bird

Pamphlet Review: Mat Riches reviews Coping Stones by Richie McCaffery (Fras Publications, 2021), Emma Simon reviews The One Girl Gremlin by Phoebe Stuckes (Verve, 2021) and Hilary Menos reviews is, thinks Pearl by Julia Bird (The Emma Press, 2021)

Here is Bernie Saunders in Mittens

by Roy Marshall — our Friday Poem on 03/12/21

We need to pay attention to those who are calling it like they see it

In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to James Conor Patterson, poet and editor