Features

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Punk Poetry – bitten the dust or alive and well?

Hilary Menos looks back at the poets who embodied the spirit of punk in the 1970s and 80s and asks where are the punk poets of today?

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Lyric Essay / Autism / Nature / Around Me / The Lakes

Feature: Lyric Essay / Autism / Nature / Around Me / The Lakes by Jane Burn

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Putting a Poetry Pamphlet Together

Feature: Roy Marshall discusses writing, editing and ordering your poems, choosing a title for your pamphlet, and finding the right place to send it

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We want everyone to feel they can come and join our poetry party!

In Conversation: Stuart Bartholomew talks to The Friday Poem

Black and white image of Patricia Beer, she is wearing a dark jacket and is standing in front of conifers. Her expression is knowing.

Compassion in strange places

Matthew Paul on the life and poetry of Patricia Beer

Palimpsest

In the second of our series on over-used words in poetry, Chris Edgoose takes on 'palimpsest'

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Sort of Irish and sort of famous

Rory Waterman reveals the story behind his poem 'Like Father'

Anne-Marie Fyfe sitting on a wooden boardwalk in Massachusetts. Wearing a red jacket and a white scarf with dark blue stars around her neck.

Castaway Companions

Castaway poet Anne-Marie Fyfe chooses three poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop to take to a desert island

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Out of the Blue

Feature: Top prizes aren’t necessarily the preserve of established poets. The Friday Poem talks to five previously unpublished poets who won the biggest poetry competition in the UK

Black and white image showing four female poets, Carol Ann Duffy, Penelope Shuttle, Linda France and Evan Bolan. They all look poetically pensive

Under the Influence: How I became a (woman) poet

Feature: Sarah Corbett charts and celebrates twentieth century women poets and encourages women to read the work of their poetry mothers and grandmothers

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The Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2020

Maggie Mackay considers pamphlets by the winner, runner up and shortlisted poets, and looks at what they have done since

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My general approach is to question the norm

In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Les Robinson about finding new poets, writing blurbs, and the usefulness (or not) of poetry reviews