The Friday Poem
A poem every Friday
by Rowan Bell — Dear Daddy, I love you so much / but I don’t want you to come / to my pre-wedding party. You’ll be / there at the lunch, so you mustn’t be glum. // You can go home on the train / and spend a few moments alone / in Tavistock Square
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Mat Riches reviews Climacteric by Jo Bratten (Fly On The Wall Press, 2022)
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by Nell Prince — The early light is wooly blue / and comes with a buzz: outside / the room a single bee assumes / a sonic prominence, sounds large // against the dusty silences. / It gives the quiet day
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Jane Routh reviews Testimonies by Hamish Whyte (HappenStance Press, 2022)
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Christmas poems by Louis MacNeice, e.e. cummings, Benjamin Zephaniah, James Arthur, Allison Joseph and Jane Kenyon
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by Martyn Crucefix — I will talk of course / but mostly I listen / and at lunchtime / snowflakes crashing down // onto London tarmac / though you’d hardly / call this snow / perhaps even sleet // yet something more / fleecy than hailstones / is making
Annie Fisher reviews The Bigger Picture by D. A. Prince (HappenStance, 2022)
Hilary Menos reviews The Grass Boat by Imogen Forster (Mariscat, 2021)
