Poems as Friends : The Poetry Exchange 10th Anniversary Anthology Maria Stepanova Behold the poet building his

Behold the poet building his house of language on altars to the dispossessed

Certain preoccupations remain constant – an eye for the ways our lives are shaped by loss and an appetite to compensate for that deficit by paying close attention to the world

most perfectly in the metaphor of memory ' (Literary Review)

tales whose surprising images suddenly gather additional narrative force

Sensuously wrought and even

Poems as Friends : The Poetry Exchange 10th Anniversary Anthology Maria Stepanova Behold the poet building hisThe Poetry Exchange is an award winning podcast and project that celebrates the role poetry plays in people's lives. In their first anthology, Fiona Bennett and Michael Shaeffer draw on ten years of archival material to bring together a collection of poems chosen by readers that know them as friends, presented alongside their personal stories of connection. Featuring Brian Cox on John Clare, Andrew Scott on George Herbert, Maxine Peake on Tony