The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Nell Prince

Photo of Nell's bookshelf. Predictably, there are poetry books.

The World’s Undebatably Dark Ages

Nell Prince gives us a tour of her poetry bookshelf and recommends Catullus, Herrick and Frost
Black text on white reads ‘More friendly, more humble than a bird by Nell Prince’ with a Friday Poem yellow blob in the top right hand corner like a little sun.

More friendly, more humble than a bird

by Nell Prince — The early light is wooly blue / and comes with a buzz: outside / the room a single bee assumes / a sonic prominence, sounds large // against the dusty silences. / It gives the quiet day
Black and white print showing a black background with white horizontal stripes. A circle of this is cut out and slid down showing a white background.

The space between bars

Nell Prince reviews Angola, America by Sammy Weaver (Seren, 2022)
An abstract design. The left hand third of the image is yellow, the right hand two-thirds is black with one orange and two yellow triangles.

The mind begins this squeaking

Nell Prince reviews Finishing School by Michaela Coplen (Ignition, 2022)