Reviews
![An old black and white photo of two kids, one older boy and a younger girl.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Skin-Blister-320x225.webp)
Catch the heart off guard and blow it open
Annie Fisher reviews Skin & Blister by Blake Morrison (Mariscat, 2023)
![Imagine a map, then make the canvas black and take away everything apart from the roads (in off-white) and some dots where settlements might be, there you have it.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/After-all-we-have-travelled-Sarala-Estruch-320x225.jpg)
玫瑰, गुलाब, rose
D.A. Prince reviews After all we have travelled by Sarala Estruch (Nine Arches Press, 2023)
![Appears to be a watercolour painting in a block graphic style representing sea in the foreground and a sandy seashore behind. The whole thing has a slightly swirly pattern visible. A bit like the circle marks on an artex ceiling, but more artistic.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/juhasz-320x225.jpg)
The wonders this lens can do!
Steven Lovatt reviews Ferenc Juhász: Selected Poems translated by David Wevill (Shearsman, 2022)
![Light green textured paper background with two off-centre white dots.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Uneasy-Pieces-320x225.jpg)
And far away a writer drawing a breath
Regina Weinert reviews Uneasy Pieces by Nancy Campbell (Guillemot Press 2022)
![Black background with the face of a china doll, cracked, with piercing blue eyes.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Dolls-Hospital-Front-Cover-v1-320x225.jpg)
Your gift living on in cracked pots carried from garden to garden
Maggie Mackay reviews The Doll's Hospital by Jenny Robb (Yaffle, 2022)
![A thin black diagonal line running from top right to bottom left separates two blocks of colour, one orange, one white](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Richard-Skinner-Dream-Into-Play-320x225.jpg)
Deep fake, rush fade, tilt shift, whip pan, smash cut
Jane Routh reviews Dream into Play by Richard Skinner (Poetry Salzburg, 2022)
![A fifties-style graphic showing the rocky surface of a planet with coloured moons and asteroids. The words 'Space Baby' are superimposed in white.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Space-Baby-Suzannah-Evans-320x225.jpg)
Maybe it’s already gone supernova
Carl Tomlinson reviews Space Baby by Suzannah Evans (Nine Arches, 2022)
![A predominantly black and white old photograph of an oldish woman standing if front of a stone house, arms akimbo. She is dressed in black and wearing a black bonnet-like hat. Her apron is in colour and embroidered with large primitive flower shapes.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Our-lady-of-tyres-Claire-Trevien-320x225.jpg)
Ce n’est pas une métaphore
Hilary Menos reviews Our Lady of Tyres / Notre dame des pneus by Claire Trévien, translated from English to French by Marie Lando (Broken Sleep Books, 2022)
![A paper cutout of the front steps to Steven Spender's house. It is a blue townhouse and stone steps lead to the front door. Leaves are on the ground, giving an autumnal air.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Spender-house-320x225.jpg)
A single umbrella is enough to start a revolution
Matthew Stewart reviews The Storm in the Piano by Christopher James (Maytree Press, 2022),
![A background of the stock exchange with the words "The economist can tell you about your bank balance, but the poet has a window into your soul" superimposed](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/POETS-GUIDE-TO-ECONOMICS-320x225.jpg)
Like worms on the corruption in which they are bred
Hilary Menos reviews The Poets’ Guide to Economics by John Ramsden (Pallas Athene, 2022)
![Colourful almost paisley image with curving floral designs in the foreground on a background of blue white with brown tendril like patterns](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jongleur-front-cover--320x225.jpg)
When you are being eaten by vultures they will leave your face alone
Hilary Menos reviews Jongleur by Rennie Parker (Shoestring, 2021)