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Sing a Song of Sixpence

30/11/2023

Poet and financial journalist Emma Simon picks six poems about money

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Photo of Vanessa Lampert. She is wearing a blue jacket and smiling. She has shoulder length grey hair.

Castaway Companions

30/11/2023

Vanessa Lampert chooses poems by Matthew Dickman, Dorianne Laux and Karen Solie for her desert island

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The World’s Undebatably Dark Ages

30/11/2023

Nell Prince gives us a tour of her poetry bookshelf and recommends Catullus, Herrick and Frost

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Form it from loosestrife, form it remorselessly

30/11/2023

Stephen Payne reviews Rope of Sand by Fiona Larkin (Pindrop Press, 2023)

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If Tarring Neville was not a village but a procedure

30/11/2023

Matthew Paul reviews Instead of an Alibi by Geoff Hattersley (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)

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Part of the text "Collecting the Data" in red serif font on a turquoise background.

Each brief puncture of the incoming tide

30/11/2023

Isabelle Thompson reviews Collecting the Data by Mat Riches (Red Squirrel Press, 2023)

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A collage showing a robin, some soldiers playing football, a Christmas tree, a goose, a running policeman, a pudding and curiously a copy of 'The Joy of Sex'

Poetry Humbug: five poems to ruin Christmas

30/11/2023

Tim Atkins selects five Christmas poems – "gifts that really should never have been given"

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Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, dressed in yellow, striding forward into the projected fantasy of her come-back

I have never walked a blistering dust road out from San Antonio

30/11/2023

D.A.Prince reviews Hollywood or Home by Kathryn Gray (Seren, 2023)

Continue ReadingI have never walked a blistering dust road out from San Antonio
Black text on white reads "Three poems by Nia Broomhall" with a yellow Friday Poem blob over part of the image.

Three poems by Nia Broomhall

30/11/2023
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Black text on white reads "Three poems by Dane Holt" with a yellow Friday Poem blob over part of the image.

Three poems by Dane Holt

29/11/2023
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Black text on white reads "Three poems by Lex Runciman" with a yellow Friday Poem blob over part of the image.

Three poems by Lex Runciman

28/11/2023
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Victoria Moul

02/11/2023
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