Emma Simon
![Illustration of a 1950's style woman getting ready to stab a python with a dagger. I know right! Pretty racey for poetry (It's even got a yellow background!). I'll take it over an abstract thought doodle though.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Shapeshifting-for-Beginners-by-Emma-Simon-320x225.jpg)
Are Poetry Reviews Pointless?
Helena Nelson plays with Shapeshifting for Beginners by Emma Simon (Salt, 2023)
![A poster-style graphic that shows four sheep heads each on a different coloured background. It's like Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings, but with sheep.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/What-the-sheep-taught-me-Mary-Mulholland-320x225.jpg)
SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP FOX SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP
Emma Simon reviews What the sheep taught me by Mary Mulholland (Live Canon, 2022)
![Part of a painting which shows a foot on a tightrope.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Kathy-Pimlott-The-Small-Manoeuvres-320x225.jpg)
Ready to catch light
Emma Simon reviews the small manoeuvres by Kathy Pimlott (Verve, 2022)
![Images from the three pamphlet covers, mostly grayscale. Three are some photographed high rise buildings, a close up of a black leather jacket and a drawing of what looks like a figure in a maze](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Three-pamphlets-live-cannon-320x225.jpg)
Three Live Canon winners
Emma Simon reviews pamphlets by Aileen La Tourette, Elena Croitoru and Mehmet Izbudak, winners of the Live Canon Pamphlet Competition 2021
![A thumbs up and a two fingers salute in front of a poetry submission letter](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/rejections-320x225.jpg)
We have never seen worse
Emma Simon asks poets about good rejections, bad rejections, and rejections that leave you hanging on forever
![Three book covers. One with six colourful graphics including a bear and a blow up flamingo, one pink sparkle with a chrome compact mirror and one green with black and dark green text](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/three-pamphlets-December-320x225.jpg)
Three pamphlets: Richie McCaffery, Phoebe Stuckes and Julia Bird
Mat Riches reviews Coping Stones by Richie McCaffery, Emma Simon reviews The One Girl Gremlin by Phoebe Stuckes and Hilary Menos reviews is, thinks Pearl by Julia Bird
![Black and white image showing agricultural machinery on a large field with a dark brooding sky, the image has been rotated 90 degrees.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Field-requiem-320x225.jpg)
Hearts pressed with aspic
Emma Simon reviews Field Requiem by Sheri Benning (Carcanet, 2021)
![The Friday Poem 'Part of me can't hear the moon calling any more' by Emma Simon](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Emma-simon-320x225.jpg)
Part of me can’t hear the moon calling anymore
by Emma Simon — Isn’t it always the same, within a crisis / another smaller crisis following its own orbit. / For years now I’ve been singing to her tunes / listening to the pluck
![Part of the front cover of 'Little Piece of Harm' by Chris Jones showing a wet puddle ion a pavement n the dark, in an urban setting](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Little-Piece-of-Harm-cover-watercolour-1-320x225.jpg)
A man was shot not far from where we live
Emma Simon reviews Little Piece of Harm by Chris Jones (Longbarrow, 2020)