The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

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

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.

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

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