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Castaway Companions

Castaway: Ben Wilkinson chooses poems by Louis MacNeice, Stevie Smith and John Keats to take to his desert island

Do what you are going to do and I will tell about it

Feature: Katrina Naomi writes about finding permission to write, violence in poetry, and what makes a happy life

Literature is larger than a single set of people or the taste of one editor

In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Amy Wack, Poetry Editor at Seren Books

The outsider who writes from within

Essay: Matthew Stewart looks at the work of Michael Laskey

By golly, I’ve got it

Feature: Bruno Cooke explores how the poetry of the 1918 Spanish flu compares with the poetry of the present Covid-19 pandemic

Do words help?

Feature: Consultant Clinical Psychologist and poet Khadija Rouf explores how poetry can be used to heal trauma

Poetry editors have a love/hate relationship with poetry

In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Helena Nelson, poet, editor and founder of HappenStance Press and Sphinx Review

Wild Hearted Woman

Feature: Helen Ivory writes on belonging, identity and finding a voice, and wonders whether hers has a Luton accent

You who found your dream but could not spell it

Profile: Bruno Cooke meets Spoken Word poet Joelle Taylor and discusses activism, education and the power of poetry

Friday Poems in the Anglosphere

Feature: The Frip has a scout around for other Friday Poems, from Pan Macmillan and Seren in the UK to radio and print in Australia, New Zealand and the USA
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