Poetry and Everyday Sexism
We talk to Kim Moore about everyday sexism, her recent Forward prize-winning poetry collection All the Men I Never Married, and her new collection of lyric essays Are You Judging Me Yet?
In Conversation
We have to find the right authors and the right commercial strategy to recover. It may take us five years
The Frip talks to Chris Hamilton-Emery, poet and director of Salt Publishing, about the new Salt Modern Poets list, building readerships, and writing every day "without hope and without despair"
We certainly like our poets to be challenging in what they say but perhaps less so in how they say it!
We talk to Mike Bartholomew-Biggs from London Grip about managing poetry reviews, London Grip New Poetry, the re-launch of Poetry in the Crypt, and the joy of maths
Vivat Mariscat
The Friday Poem talks to Hamish Whyte of Mariscat Press about current Scottish Galvanisers, the timidity of contemporary review culture, and to blurb or not to blurb
Gathering flowers
In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Kathryn Gray and Andrew Neilson, founders and editors of digital poetry journal Bad Lilies
Inside iamb
The Friday Poem talks to Mark Antony Owen, founder and editor of poet directory and quarterly journal iamb
Inside Spelt
The Friday Poem talks to Wendy Pratt, founder and editor of Spelt Magazine, about running a literary magazine with a nature focus, elitist gatekeepers, and the importance of planning
The poet has to have the last word
We talk to Sharon Black, editor of Pindrop Press, about the impact of Brexit, living and writing in two languages, and what’s new with Pindrop
Ups and Downs
In Conversation: Lorna Dowell talks about her first teachers at school, setting up Poetic Licence, and how creative expression is key to general well-being and mental health
I’m enjoying the anonymity while it lasts
We talk to the Poet Laureate of Twitter, Brian Bilston, about pressure to publish, how writing about politics can be a form of therapy, and why he's writing love poems now
Make nice things
In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Emma Dai'an Wright of The Emma Press about what it's like to be a gatekeeper, increased diversity in the publishing industry, and the joy of making nice things
Voices in a strange land
Feature: The Friday Poem talks to Exiled Writers Ink founding director Jennifer Langer.
Photograph of Kabul Street Art by Kabir Mokamel