Sarah Wimbush
![A painting of a woman shelling peas, the clouds are bright, she has red hair and a blue blouse with small white flowers on it](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Sarah-Wimbush-Shelling-Peas-320x225.jpg)
Woods, words, a sword of spells bunched up on a larch
Maggie Mackay reviews Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands by Sarah Wimbush (Bloodaxe, 2022)
![Photo of Sarah, she has short dark brown hair and is wearing a thin blue scarf and a blue linen top.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Sarah-Wimbush-pic-320x225.jpg)
Castaway Companions
Castaway poet Sarah Wimbush chooses poems by Ted Hughes, Liz Berry and Paul Bentley to take to a desert island
![The Astronaut Who Came To Tea](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Sarah_Wimbush-320x225.jpg)
The Astronaut Who Came To Tea
by Sarah Wimbush — Theirs was a strange spacesuit. / Some wore garb the colour / of saffron, pimpernels, dirt-tracks, / girded themselves with sovereign / coinage and jaunty brims