The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

A lesson for all

Feature: Rowan Bell on Paul Piech and Poetry

We are always saying goodbye

Castaway: Martyn Crucefix chooses poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edward Thomas and Rainer Maria Rilke to take to his desert island

The Censored Women of Les Fleurs du Mal

Feature: Pedro Baños Gallego on Baudelaire's censored women in 'Les Fleurs du Mal'

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Feature: On finding a title for your poem

The Joy of Cycling

Feature: Our Spoken Word Editor Bruno Cooke is off round the world on two wheels. Her considers the joy of cycling, in poetry.

Unicorn flavour

In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Aaron Kent, poet, editor, and publisher of Broken Sleep Books

What do our new regular reviewers say?

Feature: On our second anniversary we asked our new regular reviewers to say a bit about poetry and reviewing

How Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood

Feature: How Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood

This barter of enthusiasm 7

Feature: Stephen Payne, Clare Best ands Jeremy Wikeley choose poems by Geoffrey Brock, Mark Doty and W.H. Auden

On Trying To Notice Joy

Feature:Polly Atkin on her love of tea, Teaism, and what Leila Chatti's poem 'Tea' means to her

punk ballet. Act 1. / there is more to come

Feature: Bruno Cooke profiles Vanessa Kisuule

Crossing the Line: Walking in the Cheviots with Dante

Feature: Stewart Sanderson considers the notion of 'crossing the line' in poetry, with reference to Dante's Divine Comedy, Child's Ballads, and Basil Bunting’s ‘Attis: Or, Something Missing’.