The Friday Poem
A poem every Friday
by Rachel Burns — Suddenly, I’ve time warped like in that German TV show / where everyone listens to cool eighty tunes on a Walkman. // I’m fifteen again, sat on the top of the double decker / with best friend, Kat. Look, we are sharing a long menthol
Rowan Bell on impressionist Pierre Bonnard and the art of writing poetry
Rory Waterman reviews Donald Davie, Selected Poems, ed. Sinéad Morrissey (Carcanet, 2022)
Maggie Mackay reviews Desperate Fishwives by Lindsay Macgregor (Molecular Press, Geneva, 2022)
by Karen Smith — there are ways to protect yourselves / from the perils of quickening in these / days of proscription. After the event, hold // your breath, sit with your knees bent /
and sneeze out the seed, or prior / plug yourself with nettle leaves
Castaway Kathy Pimlott choses poems by Roger McGough, John Keats and Mimi Khalvati for her desert island stay
Photo by Matthew Paul
Victoria Moul reviews The Thirteenth Angel by Philip Gross (Bloodaxe, 2022)
Jane Routh reviews After Clare by William Thompson (New Walk 2022) and A Separate Appointment by Rebecca Farmer (New Walk, 2022)
by Jay Whittaker — Where do I start? / Not with the gut punch, / all my father said / after I came out. //
I’ve deleted his slander from this page. / I choose not to repeat it. / Didn’t he apologise? / Don’t I have the last word? // It was the argument
The Frip talks to Chris Hamilton-Emery, poet and director of Salt Publishing
Maryann Corbett reviews 'One Hundred Visions of War', a translation by Alfred Nicol of 'Cent Visions de Guerre' by Julien Vocance (Wiseblood Books, 2022)
D.A. Prince reviews Colours & Tea (Human) by Tomi Adegbayibi (Muscaliet Press, 2022)
