November 2023 Frip
![Photo showing a jumble of children's plastic dolls in a state of disrepair.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Wunderkammer-by-Helen-Ivory-cover-320x225.jpg)
Curiosities for the curious
Clare Best reviews Wunderkammer by Helen Ivory (MadHat Press, 2023)
![Blurred black and white photograph of a woman walking with an umbrella.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/20-by-Holly-Magill-COVER-320x225.jpg)
Sunset over Sky dishes
Maggie Mackay reviews 20 by Holly Magill (Drunk Muse Press, 2023)
![Dark red line drawing on light red paper. It shows a small house. A ladder protrudes from an upstairs window and heads upwards.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Cargo-by-Charlotte-Gann-cover-320x225.jpg)
As if to map the hidden history
Isabelle Thompson reviews Cargo by Charlotte Gann (Mariscat Press, 2023)
![I think it's wool. Mostly blue but with th occasional red splurge. Oh, and there are some, drops of water that look frozen.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Material-Properties-by-Jake-Polley-Cover-320x225.jpg)
Alley Sally, Flash Face, Do-No-Day
Jane Routh reviews Material Properties by Jacob Polley (Picador, 2023)
![Close up photo of a white sheeps head. We can mostly see the eye.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Women-in-Comfortable-Shoes-by-Selima-Hill-COVER-320x225.jpg)
Tiny shorts the colour of meringues
Annie Fisher reviews Women in Comfortable Shoes by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe Books, 2023)
![A book cover showing what looks like two purple tinted, torn paper images of a woman's face . One shows two eyes and a bit of nose, the other shows one eye , half a nose and a mouth.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Isdal-by-Suzannah-Dickey-cover-320x225.jpg)
‘What is the language using us for?’
Helena Nelson reviews Isdal by Susannah Dickey (Picador, 2023)
![Some black and white text (part of the book title) on a red background. For extra 'artistic design' points the text lines are slanted diagonally.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Cliff-Yates-book-cover-320x225.jpg)
Duster Bennett live at Frank Freeman’s
Matthew Paul reviews New and Selected Poems by Cliff Yates (Smith|Doorstop, 2023)
![Photograph showing a streets in Leeds city center. They are empty apart from one figure in the middle of the street](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/leeds-320x225.jpg)
There is a happy land
Ian Harker looks at the poetry scene in Leeds
![Bookshelf photograph showing various titles and...inexplicably a glass of water. Water? Absinthe maybe...but water?](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Richard-Meier-Bookshelf-pic-320x225.jpg)
The toad, the child, the sapling
Richard Meier treats us to a tour of his poetry bookshelf
![Photo of Jackie Wills. She has long brown hair with flecks of grey, and red lipstick.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Jackie-Wills-320x225.jpg)
The cutty’s goistering
The Friday Poem talks to poet and gardener Jackie Wills
![Photograph a woman standing in sand with a coat on. She has left footprints.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Carole-Coates-Dead-Letters-COVER-320x225.jpg)
Our small Homeric lives
Steven Lovatt reviews Dead Letters by Carole Coates (Shoestring, 2023)