The thing itself
Charlotte Gann reviews When the Swimming Pool Fell in the Sea by Carole Coates (Shoestring, 2021)
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What the Doorman Says
by Ben Wilkinson — That he could kill for a smoke. / That the punters get older every year. / That really, he hardly ever has to lay a finger. / That even arterial blood washes right out. / That the fella with the dog
Lyric Essay / Autism / Nature / Around Me / The Lakes
Feature: Lyric Essay / Autism / Nature / Around Me / The Lakes
by Jane Burn
Traces
Chris Edgoose reviews The Dereliction by Liz Berry and Tom Hicks (Hercules Editions, 2021)
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
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
We want everyone to feel they can come and join our poetry party!
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