The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

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

Putting a Poetry Pamphlet Together

Feature: Roy Marshall on writing, editing and ordering your poems, choosing a title for your pamphlet, and finding the right place to send it

We want everyone to feel they can come and join our poetry party!

In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Stuart Bartholomew, founder of Verve Poetry

Compassion in strange places

Essay: Matthew Paul on the life and poetry of Patricia Beer

Palimpsest

Feature: Chris Edgoose denounces 'palimpsest'

Sort of Irish and sort of famous

Feature: Rory Waterman reveals the story behind his poem 'Like Father'

Castaway Companions

Castaway: Anne-Marie Fyfe chooses poems by Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop to take to a desert island

Out of the Blue

Feature: The Friday Poem talks to five previously unpublished poets who won the National Poetry Competition

Under the Influence: How I became a (woman) poet

Feature: Sarah Corbett traces the lineage of twentieth century women poets

The Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2020

Feature: Maggie Mackay looks at winning pamphlets in the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2020 — Hinge by Alycia Pirmohamed (ignitionpress, 2020) and The Highland Citizenship Test by Colin Bramwell (Stewed Rhubarb, 2021)

My general approach is to question the norm

In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Les Robinson, Managing Editor of Ignition Press and founder and Director of Tall-Lighthouse