The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Choose a poem, learn it by heart, share it out loud

Feature: Hilary Menos talks to Julie Blake, co-founder of Poetry By Heart

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Feature: Matthew Paul, Charlotte Gann and Rory Waterman choose poems by Geoff Hattersley, Kathy Pimlott and Wendy Cope

All Quite Thoroughly Dirty (Part Two)

Feature: Alan Buckley continues his close reading of ‘Filling Station’ by Elizabeth Bishop

This is for the poets

Feature: Bruno Cooke on new prizes for Spoken Word Poetry

All Quite Thoroughly Dirty

Feature: Alan Buckley has a close look at ‘Filling Station’ by Elizabeth Bishop (Part One)

The difficult visiting times

In Conversation: Hilary Menos talks to Philip Gross about The Wasting Game and Deep Field, writing in good faith, and what makes a 'good' poem

Poetry in Uganda

Feature: Rowan Bell visits Kampala and meets Mercy Geno Apachi, performance poet, and Jordan Megolonyo, founder of the Klan poetry house

26 things you only know if you’re a poet

Feature: Tim Relf details the inner workings of poets

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Feature: Mat Riches, Jane Routh and Alan Buckley choose favourite funny-serious poems by Matthew Sweeney, Michael McCarthy and Kathryn Maris

What’s on Maria Taylor’s bookshelf?

Feature: British Cypriot poet Maria Taylor takes a snapshot of her bookshelf and tells us why these books are important to her

Down in the soily waters

Unpack a poem: Natalie Shaw on 'Maybe; maybe not' by Denise Riley

Pierre Bonnard and the art of writing poetry

Feature: Rowan Bell on Pierre Bonnard and the art of writing poetry