In Conversation

Unicorn flavour
We talk to Aaron Kent, poet, editor, and publisher of Broken Sleep Books

Poetry and Everyday Sexism
We talk to Kim Moore about everyday sexism, her recent Forward prize-winning poetry collection All the Men I Never Married, and her new collection of lyric essays Are You Judging Me Yet?

The difficult visiting times
Philip Gross discusses writing poetry about his family in The Wasting Game and Deep Field, the importance of self-knowledge, and what makes a 'good' poem

We have to find the right authors and the right commercial strategy to recover. It may take us five years
The Frip talks to Chris Hamilton-Emery, poet and director of Salt Publishing, about the new Salt Modern Poets list, building readerships, and writing every day "without hope and without despair"

Vivat Mariscat
The Friday Poem talks to Hamish Whyte of Mariscat Press about current Scottish Galvanisers, the timidity of contemporary review culture, and to blurb or not to blurb

We punch above our weight and compete with the big five
The Friday Poem talks to Zoë Brigley and Rhian Edwards, the new Poetry Editors at Seren Books

Gathering flowers
In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Kathryn Gray and Andrew Neilson, founders and editors of digital poetry journal Bad Lilies

Inside iamb
The Friday Poem talks to Mark Antony Owen, founder and editor of poet directory and quarterly journal iamb

The poet has to have the last word
We talk to Sharon Black, editor of Pindrop Press, about the impact of Brexit, living and writing in two languages, and what’s new with Pindrop

Ups and Downs
In Conversation: Lorna Dowell talks about her first teachers at school, setting up Poetic Licence, and how creative expression is key to general well-being and mental health

I’m enjoying the anonymity while it lasts
We talk to the Poet Laureate of Twitter, Brian Bilston, about pressure to publish, how writing about politics can be a form of therapy, and why he's writing love poems now