The Friday Poem Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Poetry pamphlets reviewed on the Frip: Nell Prince on 'Angola, America' by Sammy Weaver, Regina Weinert on 'Uneasy Pieces' by Nancy Campbell, Tim Murphy on 'The Barman' by Helen Bowell and Hilary Menos on 'The Grass Boat' by Imogen Forster. https://t.co/mw5NqQ4GRu #TheFridayPoem https://t.co/KVcObV0LEj

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Congrats to Shane McCrae and to Bad Betty Press — read our review of 'Hex and other poems' here: https://t.co/PvEWcyZtLz @akasomeguy @badbettypress https://t.co/mCibnTnnN2

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Book reviews on the Frip now: Victoria Moul on 'The Thirteenth Angel' by Philip Gross, Maryann Corbett on 'One Hundred Visions of War', a translation by Alfred Nicol of 'Cent Visions de Guerre', and Mat Riches on 'Climacteric' by Jo Bratten. https://t.co/mw5NqQ4GRu https://t.co/kjE1YpUja8

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"… even those poems that are not directly elegiac are coloured by Simmonds’s loss [of her mother], and by familial love." — Stephen Payne reviews 'Scenes from Life on Earth' by Kathryn Simmonds (Salt, 2022) https://t.co/68udRsTlwI #TheFridayPoem @saltpublishing https://t.co/kb8Bn32djX

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Books reviewed on The Frip now: 'Orlam' by PJ Harvey, 'Towards a General Theory of Love' by Clare Shaw, 'the small manoeuvres' by Kathy Pimlott and 'Space Baby' by Suzannah Evans. https://t.co/mw5NqQ4GRu #TheFridayPoem https://t.co/G9o1Ir0PgN

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The Frip has chosen six of the best and most Christmassy poems for your delight and delectation – poems by Louis MacNeice, e.e. cummings, Benjamin Zephaniah, James Arthur, Allison Joseph and Jane Kenyon. https://t.co/cfwW9AO9Yb #TheFridayPoem https://t.co/ldWPv9DWrf

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Castaway Rachael Matthews chooses poems by Jennifer L Knox, Adrienne Rich, and Kathleen Jamie to take to her desert island — poems to help her manage “the paradise and the hell of solitude”. https://t.co/7MjQOexSOJ #TheFridayPoem @rachaelwrites @TheEmmaPress https://t.co/jU4kkPrVph

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On The Friday Poem this week — our Friday Poem is 'The Biddy Boys' by Frank Dullaghan, we talk to Philip Gross, Chris Edgoose reviews 'White/ Other' by Fran Lock and Isabelle Thompson reviews 'Temporary Stasis' by Lucy Holme. https://t.co/mw5NqQ4GRu #TheFridayPoem https://t.co/KTr0GLU6HX

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On the Frip now: Rowan Bell on Pierre Bonnard and the art of writing poetry, Castaway Kathy Pimlott chooses poems by Roger McGough, John Keats and Mimi Khalvati, and we talk to Chris Hamilton-Emery, poet and director of Salt Publishing. https://t.co/mw5NqQ4GRu ##TheFridayPoem https://t.co/9vRch2bl8v

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On the Frip now: Rowan Bell on Pierre Bonnard and the art of writing poetry, Castaway Kathy Pimlott chooses poems by Roger McGough, John Keats and Mimi Khalvati, and we talk to Chris Hamilton-Emery, poet and director of Salt Publishing. https://t.co/mw5NqQ4GRu ##TheFridayPoem https://t.co/9vRch2bl8v