The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Sarah Corbett

Black text on white reads: ‘The Climbing Frame by Sarah Corbett' with half a small yellow Friday Poem blob just leaving from the top right hand side.

The Climbing Frame

by Sarah Corbett — Square of hot concrete and new plimsolls / pulled on, elastic at the front, the soft/snap / over my heels & I leap up
Black and white photograph of Sylvia Plath looking directly at the camera. There are bookshelves in the background. It can't be that warm because she's wearing a woolly cardigan with a plaid trim under the buttons.

Hooks and Visions: Sylvia Plath and Me

Poet Sarah Corbett takes a break from her role as producer and director of the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival to talk about what first drew her to Plath's work
Black and white image showing four female poets, Carol Ann Duffy, Penelope Shuttle, Linda France and Evan Bolan. They all look poetically pensive

Under the Influence: How I became a (woman) poet

Feature: Sarah Corbett charts and celebrates twentieth century women poets and encourages women to read the work of their poetry mothers and grandmothers