Stephen Payne
![A drawing of a horses head, the head is looking at us and seems to be on the body of a woman wearing a blue coat. The background is cream and white.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Feeling-Unusual-320x225.jpg)
Bone white, star bright
Stephen Payne reviews Feeling Unusual by Ann Drysdale (Shoestring Press, 2022)
![Black text on white reads: 'Epitaphs by Stephen Payne' with half a big yellow Friday Poem blob rising like a sun from the bottom edge](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Epitaphs-320x225.jpg)
Epitaphs
by Stephen Payne — TINKER // Despite the name, he worked with several metals. / Despite the name, he worked with craft and care. / Let him forget about the pans and kettles / that all his tinkering could not repair. // TAILOR // Although his future
![a green lawn close up with some bowling balls on it , a red flash on the top left corner reads "The Worlds finest bowls"](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Finest-Bowls-320x225.jpg)
Considering the effects
Matthew Paul looks at poems featuring bowls by Stephen Payne, Pauline Stainer and Ted Walker
![looks like a sculpture of a red haired woman with wings (angel or dragon?) holding on to the left arm of a male figure.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Speechless-at-Inch-320x225.jpg)
I would make a language out of this
Stephen Payne reviews Speechless at Inch by James Caruth (Smith|Doorstop, 2021)
![Black and white image showing mathematical drawings and equations.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Windmill-proof-320x225.jpg)
Let trigons be trigons
Mat Riches reviews The Windmill Proof by Stephen Payne (HappenStance, 2021)