Features
‘I did my one little verse and the place just went nuts’
Bruno Cooke traces the development of Kae Tempest
Poems for all!
Feature: Editors Andy Brodie and Hilary Menos on making The Friday Poem accessible to everyone
“I think she is beginning”
Feature: alice hiller on adolescence as self-reclamation beyond sexual abuse in childhood in four poems from bird of winter, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2021
Heft
In the first of our occasional series on words that have editors reaching for the red pen, Steven Lovatt eviscerates ‘heft’
On Poets and Prizes
Feature: Who gets what, and why? Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young look at the poetry awards system in the USA. This article was first published in ASAP/J and is reproduced here under the Creative Commons Attribution License
How the flat with the red door swallowed me whole
Lyric Essay: Ways of Looking by Kim Moore
Castaway Companions
Castaway poet Ben Wilkinson chooses three poems by Louis MacNeice, Stevie Smith and John Keats to take to a desert island
Do what you are going to do and I will tell about it
Feature: Katrina Naomi on finding permission to write, violence in poetry, and what makes a happy life
Literature is larger than a single set of people or the taste of one editor
In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Amy Wack, Poetry Editor at Seren Books, about finding new poets, funding under austerity, and what it's like to be a poetry gatekeeper
The outsider who writes from within
Matthew Stewart looks at the work of Michael Laskey
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
Do words help?
Consultant Clinical Psychologist and poet Khadija Rouf explores how poetry can be used to heal trauma