The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Castaway Companions

Castaway: Julia Bird chooses poems by Michael Donaghy, Eileen Pun and John Keats for her desert island stay

Make nice things

In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Emma Dai'an Wright, founder of The Emma Press

I’d found a home

Feature: Steven Lovatt on reading poetry in translation and the style and sensibility of Zbigniew Herbert

And lo! the people came

Feature: Hosts Helen Ivory and Martin Figura tell us about the Live at the Butchery Zoom readings

Voices in a strange land

In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Exiled Writers Ink founding director Jennifer Langer 

What have you done with / the blue, beautiful world?

Feature: A round-up of eco-poetry anthologies

We have never seen worse

Feature: Emma Simon asks poets about good rejections, bad rejections, and rejections that leave you hanging on forever

Two Poetries: Spender, Poetry and Ideology

Essay: Chris Edgoose considers Stephen Spender, revolutionary poetry and the need for trust between writers and readers of poetry

Beyond the Bubble

Feature: Matthew Stewart asks how poetry can reach out to a wider readership

We need to pay attention to those who are calling it like they see it

In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to James Conor Patterson, poet and editor

Punk Poetry – bitten the dust or alive and well?

Feature: Hilary Menos looks back at the punk poets of the 1970s and 80s and asks where is the punk spirit today

Lyric Essay / Autism / Nature / Around Me / The Lakes

Lyric Essay: Lyric Essay / Autism / Nature / Around Me / The Lakes – by Jane Burn