Stephen Payne reviews 'Fourth & Walnut' by Jeremy Over (Carcanet, 2025) open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...

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"This is delightful, lyrical writing by any standard." — Matthew Paul reviews 'The Ayrshire Nestling' by Gerry Cambridge (Tringa Press, 2024). https://buff.ly/40yCsI6 #TheFridayPoem @matthewepaul.bsky.social #TringaPress #GerryCambridge

"Against the faint backdrop of the dreary 1970s, Cambridge also brilliantly evokes the embarrassment of being a teenage boy." — Matthew Paul reviews 'The Ayrshire Nestling' by Gerry Cambridge (Tringa Press, 2024). https://buff.ly/40yCsI6 #TheFridayPoem @matthewepaul.bsky.social #GerryCambridge

"An instant classic, as nature writing and bildungsroman." — Matthew Paul reviews 'The Ayrshire Nestling' by Gerry Cambridge (Tringa Press, 2024). https://buff.ly/40yCsI6 #TheFridayPoem @matthewepaul.bsky.social #TringaPress #GerryCambridge

"he Ayrshire Nestling is about far more than birds alone." — Matthew Paul reviews 'The Ayrshire Nestling' by Gerry Cambridge (Tringa Press, 2024). https://buff.ly/40yCsI6 #TheFridayPoem @matthewepaul.bsky.social #TringaPress #GerryCambridge

"By celebrating the living world around her, Routh manages to balance the horror of what is happening to it with joy in its richness and variousness." — Hilary Menos reviews 'The Luck' by Jane Routh (Smith|Doorstop, 2024). thefridaypoem.com/the-luck-jan...

“[Her] focus on the narratives and achievements of women makes a salutary change, coming, as it does, out of the smoky, blokey pub of the Scottish Literary Renaissance” Richie McCaffery on the poetry of Elizabeth Burns, for @thefridaypoem.bsky.social 2/2 thefridaypoem.com/richie-mccaf...

"I enjoyed the poems in 'Ceremony for the Nameless' for their quiet technical skill." — Steven Lovatt reviews 'Ceremony for the Nameless' by Theresa Lola (Penguin, 2024). #TheFridayPoem https://buff.ly/400Pfme @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

"What is most interesting about 'Okapi' is its form. This is a long poem – over fifty pages." — Jane Routh reviews 'Okapi' by Fiona Moore (Blue Diode Press, 2024). thefridaypoem.com/okapi-fiona-...

Norbert had utterly misunderstood the nature of the event.

Thank you @matthewepaul.bsky.social for this wonderful and insightful review of my poetry collection!!! indigodreamspublishing.com/victoria-gat...

While you wait for our next issue, out in February, we thought we might fill the Bluesky with content from our last issue...from April (we've been enjoying a hiatus since). First up in issue nineteen was the return of John Stammers. badlilies.uk/john-stammers