The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Kathy Pimlott

Photo of Kathy Pimlott. She has short grey hair, glasses and is holding a glass of wine. She is wearing ablue polo necked jumper and a necklace of orange wooden beads. Photo by Matthew Paul.

Castaway Companions

Castaway Kathy Pimlott choses poems by Roger McGough, John Keats and Mimi Khalvati for her desert island stay


Photo by Matthew Paul
Part of a painting which shows a foot on a tightrope.

Ready to catch light

Emma Simon reviews the small manoeuvres by Kathy Pimlott (Verve, 2022)
The Friday Poem 'The Baby in the Wardrobe' by Kathy Pimlott

The Baby in the Wardrobe

by Kathy Pimlott — Do you remember the story of the baby in the wardrobe, / its desiccated body wrapped in newspaper? How the baby / was decades old but the newspaper was last week’s edition?