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Bone white, star bright
Stephen Payne reviews Feeling Unusual by Ann Drysdale (Shoestring Press, 2022)
You make a mirrorball out of the rain
Mat Riches reviews Glut by Ramona Herdman (Nine Arches, 2022)
Letting the shadow out of the box
Hilary Menos reviews Turn Up the Ocean by Tony Hoagland (Bloodaxe, 2022)
Hooks and Visions: Sylvia Plath and Me
Poet Sarah Corbett takes a break from her role as producer and director of the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival to talk about what first drew her to Plath's work
Jane Routh
This page shows the features and reviews that Matthew Stewart has contributed to The Friday Poem
Clare Best
This page shows the features and reviews that Clare Best has contributed to The Friday Poem
Khadija Rouf
This page shows the features and reviews that Khadija Rouf has contributed to The Friday Poem
Erasures
by Maryann Corbett — It was, he first explains, a summer job. / The sort you ordinarily forget — / work-study, during graduate school. His task / was hauling the condemned away for burning / or rending limb from limb. Not people, no, / but books
Pulled into focus through my mind’s binoculars
D.A. Prince reviews Old Friends by Hannah Lowe (Hercules Editions, 2022)
What do our regular reviewers say?
This month, to celebrate a year of voicing opinion, we asked our reviewers to tell us a bit about how, when and why they came to write / review poetry, and what they do when they just can’t get on with writing a Friday Poem review