The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

James Conor Patterson

Section of a book cover. It's mostly black, with silver grey lines that could be woodcuts. It shows in roughly square boxes, a tree, a tower, a bridge, some leaves and a curly vertical squiggle. Nope, I don't know either.

An outstretched imitation of the original

Jeremy Wikeley reviews bandit country by James Conor Patterson (Picador, 2022)
James Conor Patterson with short hair and a green crew neck jumper

We need to pay attention to those who are calling it like they see it

In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to James Conor Patterson about the four-way auction over his debut collection with Picador, the real Newry and why poetry is capturing the zeitgeist