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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

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?

Our reviewers tell us a bit about how, when and why they came to write / review poetry

One year of daft editorial pictures

WTAF has been going on with the monthly editorial photos ...

What does Emma Simon say?

I got into poetry at school. I remember one hot sweaty day my English teacher saying that kind of weather always made her think of murder ...

What does Richie McCaffery say?

I took a fairly predictable teenage route into poetry, discovering Dylan Thomas and falling under his spell ...

What does Matthew Paul say?

I had a succession of very engaging English teachers. For 'A' level, our texts included Robert Lowell and Donne, both of whom I really enjoyed ...

What does Mat Riches say?

I got into poetry by accident. I remember writing some sort of rhyming thing around the age of five ...

What does Carl Tomlinson say?

It's hard to remember a time when poetry didn't delight me. I'm enchanted by the possibilities of language ...

What does Bruno Cooke say?

While studying Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London I regularly performed on the spoken word circuit in London, competed in poetry slams ...