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![What does Tim Murphy say?](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Tim-Murphy-320x225.jpg)
What does Tim Murphy say?
I learned to appreciate poetry at school in Cork. Work by Yeats, Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Patrick Kavanagh, Thomas Kinsella ...
![What does Alan Buckley say?](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Alan-Buckley-320x225.jpg)
What does Alan Buckley say?
My journey into writing poetry as an adult wasn’t straightforward. I’d written a lot as a child, albeit mainly stories ...
![Head and shoulders photo of Rachael. She has short brown hair and glasses. She has her baby daughter in a sling across her chest.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Rachael-Matthews-Castaway-320x225.jpg)
What does Rachael Matthews say?
If you widen the definition of poetry to include what’s thinkable and worded but unspoken, I’ve always made poems ...
![What does Jane Routh say?](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Jane-Routh-320x225.jpg)
What does Jane Routh say?
I’m a reader of poetry, and, since you can never trust a cover blurb, I’m a reader of reviews too ...
![What does Annie Fisher say?](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Annie-Fisher-photo-320x225.jpg)
What does Annie Fisher say?
I write reviews for pleasure and to broaden my reading, but I only review collections I like ...
![What does Khadija Rouf say?](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Khadija-Rouf-320x225.jpg)
What does Khadija Rouf say?
I've been writing poetry since I was a kid, being awarded a literary shield when I was 9 years old. I am not sure if that cemented the bug but I grew up adoring books ...
![What does Clare Best say?](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Clare-Best-new-pic-1-320x225.jpg)
What does Clare Best say?
For my seventh birthday my mum gave me The Golden Treasury of Poetry, selected and with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer ...
![What does Matthew Stewart say?](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Matheww-stewart-320x225.jpg)
What does Matthew Stewart say?
Throughout my childhood and teenage years, I wrote across several genres. It wasn’t till my second year ...
![What does say Isabelle Thompson say?](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/isabelle-thompson-320x225.jpg)
What does say Isabelle Thompson say?
When I was two years old I wanted to be a bus driver or an orchestra conductor – the latter because I wanted to wave my arms about a lot ...
![What does Stephen Payne say?](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Stephen-Payne-square-320x225.jpg)
What does Stephen Payne say?
Beginnings and favourites. I enjoyed Keats at O 'Level, but not as much as Maths and Physics. The first poetry I fell hard for ...
![What does D. A. Prince say?](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/D.A.Prince-320x225.jpg)
What does D. A. Prince say?
Rhyme and rhythm: the rhyming couplets in the Rupert Bear annuals, knowing The Pied Piper of Hamelin by heart when I was four ...