The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Ian Harker

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.

The Leeds Mummy abandons his chariot

Tim Murphy reviews A to Z of Superstitions by Ian Harker (Yaffle Press, 2023)
Photograph showing a streets in Leeds city center. They are empty apart from one figure in the middle of the street

There is a happy land

Ian Harker looks at the poetry scene in Leeds
Snowday

Snowday

by Ian Harker — The cars are falling with long sighs / down Monk Bridge Road, their tanks empty / and the beck grinding to a halt