The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Essay

Some mangoes in a basket, and one loose on some large yellowish rocks

The grief I cast is for me

Matthew Paul celebrates the life and poetry of Ted Walker
Photo of Tom standing on a a river bank with a bridge in the background. He has a dark beard and glasses and is wearing a blue waterproof jacket and a grey check scarf

Finding the source

Tom Sastry writes about politics, connection and what poetry is for
a green lawn close up with some bowling balls on it , a red flash on the top left corner reads "The Worlds finest bowls"

Considering the effects

Matthew Paul looks at poems featuring bowls by Stephen Payne, Pauline Stainer and Ted Walker
Close up of Elizabeth Burns face, her head is tilted and she is wearing oval glasses

Parcels of light

Richie McCaffery looks at the poetry of Elizabeth Burns
family photo of six people plus cat from the 1918 flu pandemic

By golly, I’ve got it

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