Beyond the Bubble
Matthew Stewart asks how poetry can reach out to a wider readership
Features
Punk Poetry – bitten the dust or alive and well?
Hilary Menos looks back at the poets who embodied the spirit of punk in the 1970s and 80s and asks where are the punk poets of today?
Lyric Essay / Autism / Nature / Around Me / The Lakes
Feature: Lyric Essay / Autism / Nature / Around Me / The Lakes
by Jane Burn
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
We want everyone to feel they can come and join our poetry party!
In Conversation: Stuart Bartholomew talks to The Friday Poem
Palimpsest
In the second of our series on over-used words in poetry, Chris Edgoose takes on 'palimpsest'
Sort of Irish and sort of famous
Rory Waterman reveals the story behind his poem 'Like Father'
Castaway Companions
Castaway poet Anne-Marie Fyfe chooses three poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop to take to a desert island
Out of the Blue
Feature: Top prizes aren’t necessarily the preserve of established poets. The Friday Poem talks to five previously unpublished poets who won the biggest poetry competition in the UK
Under the Influence: How I became a (woman) poet
Feature: Sarah Corbett charts and celebrates twentieth century women poets and encourages women to read the work of their poetry mothers and grandmothers
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
‘I did my one little verse and the place just went nuts’
Bruno Cooke traces the development of Kae Tempest