Found by a man who was walking his dog
by Robert Etty — It wasn’t the only thing he’s found: bones / (not surprisingly), fully fleshed bodies / and single limbs, bombs, mines, meteorites, / sausages with new
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Putting a Poetry Pamphlet Together
Feature: Roy Marshall discusses writing, editing and ordering your poems, choosing a title for your pamphlet, and finding the right place to send it
Her fear is a dress she can no longer fit into
Bruno Cooke reviews C+nto: & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor (Saqi Books, 2021)
Coda
by Rory Waterman — In our perfected future, there will be / a bedroom in the loft, a baby boy / to fill it, and we’ll kiss on sun-kissed sand / in every paradise we dreamed about // before you changed, when I first took you
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In Conversation: Stuart Bartholomew talks to The Friday Poem
But what are these woods anyway?
Book Review: Fiona Moore reviews Thinking with Trees by Jason Allen-Paisant (Carcanet, 2021)
Frozen
by Jonathan Totman — She wants to know what makes the villain / lift his sword. I tell her sometimes people do / bad things when they’re sad or angry or scared /and we wonder about the brothers who pretended
Compassion in strange places
Matthew Paul on the life and poetry of Patricia Beer
Distracted by eyelashes
Steven Lovatt reviews Men Who Feed Pigeons by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe, 2021)
The Solvent Properties of Water
by Sarah Hymas — We'd been talking about our childhoods, / how foreign they were to the world we navigated now, / yet how, somehow, we were still those girls / who peered under rocks and poked at the cracks
Palimpsest
In the second of our series on over-used words in poetry, Chris Edgoose takes on 'palimpsest'
