February 2024 Frip
![Ryan Van Winkle standing in front of a stone wall. He has glasses and a grey jacket.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Ryan-Van-Winkle-320x225.jpg)
In Conversation with Ryan Van Winkle
We talk to Ryan Van Winkle, the new Artistic Director for StAnza
![Photograph of a pattern poem showing horizontal and vertical lines of text with the letters SALVS superimposed.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/A-pattern-poem-from-De-laudibus-sanctae-crucis-—-2-320x225.jpg)
Medieval Pattern Poems of Rabanus Maurus
Sam Dolbear and Adam Green look at some 9th century examples of "pattern poetry"
![Photograph of a long shed-like house on iron stilts.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Between-a-Drowning-Man-by-Martyn-Crucefix-320x225.jpg)
All the bridges are down
Carl Tomlinson reviews Between A Drowning Man by Martyn Crucefix (Salt, 2023)
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Castaway Companions
Sarah Leavesley chooses poems by Matthew Arnold, Jacques Prévert and Lorine Niedecker
![Part of a slightly abstract painting showing (I think) a mirror (or window), a blue door, and some red vertical lines that could be curtains ... or a draped scarf ... or something.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/The-Sessions--320x225.jpg)
This ritual of witness and professionalism
D.A. Prince reviews The Sessions by Jonathan Totman (Pindrop Press, 2023)
![Letters from the book title arranged vertically in three columns on a grey-green background. The letters are coloured in patterns go green and white that seem to suggest leaves, or trees. Yeah, I dunno either.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Missing-Person-by-Nick-Hogg-cover-320x225.jpg)
The man will carry this void
Rory Waterman reviews Missing Person by Nicholas Hogg (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)
![A waterfall on a foggy mountainside. It's high, and the middle of ... well, you get it.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/High-Nowhere--320x225.jpg)
We have an opportunity to listen
Maggie Mackay reviews High Nowhere by Jean Atkin (Indigo Dreams, 2023)
![Close up of a doorknocker on a large old wooden door. The knocker is metal and shows a pig or boar with a ring in its mouth.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-to-Z-of-Superdtitions-by-Ian-Harker-320x225.jpg)
The Leeds Mummy abandons his chariot
Tim Murphy reviews A to Z of Superstitions by Ian Harker (Yaffle Press, 2023)
![Cliff Yates' poetry bookshelf — a shelf with poetry books on.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Cliff-Yates-Bookshelf-1-320x225.jpg)
Staring an instant out of the dark
Cliff Yates treats us to a tour of his poetry bookshelf