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Are Poetry Reviews Pointless?

Helena Nelson plays with Shapeshifting for Beginners by Emma Simon (Salt, 2023)

Paul Stephenson and Lisa Kelly exchange letters on the poetry of Wallace Stevens

Poet and financial journalist Emma Simon picks six poems about money

Vanessa Lampert chooses poems by Matthew Dickman, Dorianne Laux and Karen Solie for her desert island

Nell Prince gives us a tour of her poetry bookshelf and recommends Catullus, Herrick and Frost

Tim Atkins selects five Christmas poems – "gifts that really should never have been given"

We unpack three of Guillaume Apollinaire's 'calligrammes'

Ian Harker looks at the poetry scene in Leeds

Richard Meier treats us to a tour of his poetry bookshelf

Helen Evans, Rachel Burns and Oliver Comins choose poems by U. A. Fanthorpe, Bobby Parker and Tishani Doshi

The Friday Poem talks to poet and gardener Jackie Wills

We talk to Deb Alma, poet, teacher, editor, and founder of the Poetry Pharmacy