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In Conversation

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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?

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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"

Continue readingWe have to find the right authors and the right commercial strategy to recover. It may take us five years
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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

Continue readingWe certainly like our poets to be challenging in what they say but perhaps less so in how they say it!
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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

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Gathering flowers

In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Kathryn Gray and Andrew Neilson, founders and editors of digital poetry journal Bad Lilies

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Inside iamb

The Friday Poem talks to Mark Antony Owen, founder and editor of poet directory and quarterly journal iamb

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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

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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

Continue readingThe poet has to have the last word
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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

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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

Continue readingI’m enjoying the anonymity while it lasts
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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

Continue readingMake nice things
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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

Continue readingVoices in a strange land
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