The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Martyn Crucefix

'Other people's parties' by Martyn Crucefiix in black text on white with a Friday Poem yellow blob over 'eopl' and 'ies'.

Other people’s parties

by Martyn Crucefix — I can’t count the number of times I’ve walked out of / them, not even making my excuses. That we’re apart / from all other things, he says, the mythos ...
A drawing in green on an off-white background. Looks a bit like a musical instrument, could be a mandolin or maybe a lyre.

La vigne fait maille pour maille

Victoria Moul reviews Rainer Maria Rilke, Change Your Life. Essential Poems, selected, translated and introduced by Martyn Crucefix (Pushkin Press Classics, 2024).
Photograph of a long shed-like house on iron stilts.

All the bridges are down

Carl Tomlinson reviews Between A Drowning Man by Martyn Crucefix (Salt, 2023)
Martyn Crucefix looking at the camera. He has short brownish hair and a blue check shirt.

We are always saying goodbye

Castaway Martyn Crucefix chooses poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edward Thomas and Rainer Maria Rilke to take to his desert island
Black text on white reads ‘Ping by Martyn Crucefix’ with a Friday Poem yellow blob over the word ‘Ping’.

Ping

by Martyn Crucefix — I will talk of course / but mostly I listen / and at lunchtime / snowflakes crashing down // onto London tarmac / though you’d hardly / call this snow / perhaps even sleet // yet something more / fleecy than hailstones / is making