The Friday Poem
A poem every Friday
by Ruth Sharman — We’ve swum in this river before, / though no one steps / in the same river twice. // The glassy shock, four or five frantic strokes / before we glide downstream / as if we could go on for ever: // these are familiar; what's new
Maggie Mackay reviews Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands by Sarah Wimbush (Bloodaxe, 2022)
Matthew Paul celebrates the life and poetry of Ted Walker
Annie Fisher reviews Rain Tree by Ruth Sharman (Templar, 2022)
We talk to Sharon Black, editor of Pindrop Press, about the impact of Brexit, living and writing in two languages, and what’s new with Pindrop
by Regina Weinert — April in the Sierra Morena is mild. A hint of heat. / Knobbly-kneed holm oaks, widely spaced, // cast shade over drifts of green and yellow. / The pigs must be ecstatic. They grunt and chuckle. // Grass blades stroke their
Jane Routh reviews The Language of Bees by Rae Howells (Parthian, 2022)
Bruno Cooke on the many faces of artist, poet and social worker Tom Stockley
Photo by Will Thomas
Our reviewers tell us a bit about how, when and why they came to write / review poetry
Steven Lovatt reviews Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia (Granta, 2021)
by Mary Mulholland — Tell me about when they dropped you and you flew / to the mud-banks of the Ijssel near Arnhem, / scarcely more than a child, with parachute wings. // By your bedside you still have a book: The Psychology / of Fear: How to
Christopher James has made a paper cut-up of the Kyiv home of Ukrainian poet, Taras Shevchenko
