The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Charlotte Gann

Dark red line drawing on light red paper. It shows a small house. A ladder protrudes from an upstairs window and heads upwards.

As if to map the hidden history

Isabelle Thompson reviews Cargo by Charlotte Gann (Mariscat Press, 2023)
A a detail from Hieronymus Bosch’s ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’. It's a night scene showing fires and silhouettes of houses. At the bottom right light shines through an archway.

An empty room

Charlotte Gann reviews Towards a General Theory of Love by Clare Shaw (Bloodaxe, 2022)
A dusk sky, lanterns are strung across the image, its all a bit blurred.

The Understory Conversation: Building Connection

Charlotte Gann talks about her new project, The Understory Conversation
portion of book cover showing a painting of a long haired person, blue in colour with what appears to be smoke issuing from a hole in the forehead and also the mouth. the figure has a gold halo.

Rippled ink

Charlotte Gann reviews Be Feared by Jane Burn (Nine Arches, 2021) 
It's written and can't be amended, this book

It’s written and can’t be amended, this book

Charlotte Gann reviews The Long Habit of Living by M.R. Peacocke (HappenStance, 2021)
The Friday Poem 'Our Children's Childhoods' by Charlotte Gann

Our Children’s Childhoods

by Charlotte Gann — It was a hard, cold, wet slog, that climb. / We were heading away from shelter // talking as we walked, skirting around / our scariest subjects: when we didn’t love / enough, when we loved