Looking for the ones who will never be found
Hilary Menos reviews Lyonesse by Penny Shuttle (Bloodaxe, 2021)
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Down Time
by Chris Jones — You used to joke you were a champion sleeper / a heavyweight, the kind who’d knuckle down / to eight hour shifts without so much as a peep; / reel wide-screen dreams before you drifted round
The Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2020
Maggie Mackay considers pamphlets by the winner, runner up and shortlisted poets, and looks at what they have done since
My general approach is to question the norm
In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Les Robinson about finding new poets, writing blurbs, and the usefulness (or not) of poetry reviews
The February Museum: recent acquisitions
by Jane Routh — Fraxinus excelsior 18” square-cut deadwood log / with egg galleries of Hylesinus varius // Retrieved from the log pile, a long block / inscribed with life cycles:
It’s like the Wild West out there …
Editorial: We want answers!
Today I see eternity everywhere
Clare Best reviews Time by Etel Adnan, translated from the French by Sarah Riggs (Nightboat Books, New York, 2019)
‘I did my one little verse and the place just went nuts’
Bruno Cooke traces the development of Kae Tempest
The Unicyclist of Benghazi
by Christopher James — Like a cricket balanced on a 1 piastre piece, / my father spun through city streets. / Make a friend of the horizon, he’d tell me. / Remember, we already know how to / ride the single wheel
It’s written and can’t be amended, this book
Charlotte Gann reviews The Long Habit of Living by M.R. Peacocke (HappenStance, 2021)
Poems for all!
Feature: Editors Andy Brodie and Hilary Menos on making The Friday Poem accessible to everyone
Guitar
by Tess Jolly — After the collision of her car with his wheel, / of his small body with the road // and of my world with hers, a stranger / so distraught I found myself comforting her; // after the gathering