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Every Friday we post a review or a feature on the website and on Substack, and send it to subscribers. 1796 subscribers, 7300 post reads in November.
👤 Joined on 23 November 2024
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@thefridaypoem.bsky.socialA blast from the past here, a poem that didn't quite make it into my last book. Thanks to Hilary Menos for publishing it in The Friday Poem...
Show PostAlways great to read Helena Nelson's thoughts on poeting.
Show Post“It’s this depth that I’ve found most satisfying in Lotfi’s work, the way her past is inescapable and shapes her thinking about the present” D.A. Prince on Marjorie Lotfi’s THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK, via @thefridaypoem.bsky.social #BookWormSat #poetry thefridaypoem.substack.com/p/the-friday...
Show PostOof. "Perhaps what the author of ‘The Gathering’ set out to do was to write in a muddled way about feeling muddled. In which case it has succeeded, in a way."
Show PostHilary and I had a conversation about the poem that won the UK National Poetry Competition last weekend. It’s fair to say that we were not impressed. Worth checking out some interesting comments for the defence as well though.
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