Celebrating & Sharing Poems as Friends
All poems as friends
Since 2014, The Poetry Exchange has been inviting people to tell us about the poem that has been a friend to them - through live conversations, online nominations, and written contributions to our 10th anniversary anthology.
Here is a list of all the poems we have met over the years - brought to us by readers who have known them as friends.
Read the list of poems in alphabetical order by poet here.
* = featured on The Poetry Exchange podcast
± = featured in Poems as Friends: The Poetry Exchange 10th Anniversary Anthology
A Call by Seamus Heaney - A Friend to Michael Burton
A Cradle Song by W.B. Yeats - A Friend to Chiara Stanziani
A Form Of Women by Robert Creeley - A Friend to Annette Brook
A Hut on Ludshott Common by Nikolai Duffy - A Friend to Ceri Morgan
A Kite For Aibhín by Seamus Heaney - A Friend to Fiona Bennett *±
A Light Song Of Light by Kei Miller - A Friend to Clare Shaw
A Recovered Memory of Water by Nuala Ní Dhomnaill, tr. Paul Muldoon - A Friend to Pádraig Ó Tuama *±
A Ritual to Read to Each Other by William E. Stafford - A Friend to Simon Seligman
A Short Story Of Falling by Alice Oswald - A Friend to Charlie Beaumont * ±
A Shropshire Lad 31: On Wenlock Edge by A.E. Housman - A Friend to Serena Trowbridge *±
Ae Fond Kiss by Robert Burns - A Friend to Brian Cox *
Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost - A Friend to Glyn Maxwell *±
Adlestrop by Edward Thomas - A Friend to Jane May
Adlestrop by Edward Thomas - A Friend to Hannah Boyle
Advice to Myself by Louise Erdrich - A Friend to Ruth Stacey
Alike for those who for today prepare by Omar Khayaam - A Friend to Firoozeh Fozouni
Alone by Edgar Allan Poe - A Friend to Jan De Wandelaer
Alone by Thomas Transtromer - A Friend to Paul Sherreard
And Death Shall Have No Dominion by Dylan Thomas - A Friend to Helena Lymbery
And it does, Marianne by Eli Siegel - A Friend to Leila Rosen
Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen - A Friend to Quaisra Shahraz
anyone lived in a pretty how town by E.E. Cummings - A Friend to Valerie Jamieson
Ars Poetica #100: I Believe by Elizabeth Alexander - A Friend to John Prebble *±
Arthur in Egypt by Elizabeth Willis - A Friend to Eric Weiskott
Ashes of Life by Edna St Vincent Millay - A Friend to Laura Wade *±
Au Musée des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden - A Friend to Robert Faber
Aubade by Philip Larkin - A Friend to Jay Lewis
Aubade by Philip Larkin - A Friend to Tom Branfoot *
B (If I should have a daughter) by Sarah Kay - A Friend to Kayleen Plumb
Bag-snatching in Dublin by Stevie Smith - A Friend to Catherine Howell-Murray
Barcarole by Pablo Neruda, tr. Robert Hass - A Friend to Mark Rowan *
Bastard London! by Saira Viola - A Friend to Elizabeth James
Blessed is the Man by Marianne Moore - A Friend to Deirdre Thackray
Brahma by Ralph Emerson - A Friend to Ditte
Breakfast by Jacques Prevert - A Friend to Carole Ogden
Butterflies and Goosebumps by Prince Mbele - A Friend to Prince Mbele
Cahoots by Carl Sandburg - A Friend to Atar Hadari
Candle by Saadi Yousef - A Friend to Helen Chadwick
Ceasefire by Michael Longley - A Friend to Jacqueline Saphra *
Cider Story by Peter Didsbury - A Friend to Jonathan Davidson
Compost by Dan Chelotti - A Friend to Alice Bryant *
Continuous by Tony Harrison - A Friend to Peter Keane *
Days by Philp Larkin - A Friend to Nadine Shah *±
De Ceder / The Cedar by Han G. Hoekstra - A Friend to Alida Gersie *
Death Be Not Proud by John Donne - A Friend to Atar Hadari
Dich / You by Erich Fried - A Friend to Katharine Goda *
Different Drum by H.D. Thoreau - A Friend to Richard Cathcart
Digging by Seamus Heaney - A Friend to Sheila Gallagher
Digging by Seamus Heaney - A Friend to Zahid Hussain
Dining by Douglas Dunn - A Friend to Sarah Salway
Dis Poetry by Benjamin Zephaniah - A Friend to Roy McFarlane *
Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich - A Friend to Andrea Witzke Slot ±
Do Angels Eat by Robert Vas Dias - A Friend to Hilda Sheehan
Don Juan, Canto I by Lord Byron - A Friend to Charlotte May
Don’t Go Far Off, Not Even For A Day by Pablo Neruda - A Friend to Nicola Todhunter
Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfrid Owen - A Friend to Joolz Sparkes *
Ed e’subito sera by Salvatore Quasimodo - A Friend to Camila Garzon
Eight Hours Old by Vicky Wilson - A Friend to Vicky Wilson
El Desdichado by Gerard De Nerval - A Friend to Tim Armstrong
Ephemera by W.B. Yeats - A Friend to Derylyn Owen
Escape by D.H. Lawrence - A Friend to Laura Jacobs
Eve Remembering by Toni Morrison - A Friend to Maria Augusta Arruda *±
Evening by Stephan G. Stephansson - A Friend to Jerry Iwanus
Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert - A Friend to Wayne Standish
Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert - A Friend to Gillian Laker
Fall by Owen Marshall - A Friend to Charlie Beaumont
Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas - A Friend to Adrian Tissier *±
Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas - A Friend to Linda Nemec
Final Sightings by Mary Connely - A Friend to Graeme Oswald
First Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke - A Friend to Rosemary Lee
Fisherman by Dennis Scott - A Friend to Michael Cooke *
Flying Crooked by Robert Graves - A Friend to Becky Swain
For Andrew Wood by James Fenton - A Friend to Jon Atkin
For Sigrid by Derek Walcott - A Friend to Mark Rowan *
For the Sleepwalkers by Edward Hirsch - A Friend to Anne Caldwell
For What Binds Us by Jane Hirshfield - A Friend to Anna Mark
Free Pens by Connie Wanek - A Friend to Sarah Rowbotham
Friendship by Carrie Williams Clifford – A Friend to Delphine Gray ±
From Blossoms by Li Young Lee - A Friend to Jessica Stone *
Fun in Acapulco by Terry Kelly - A Friend to Sheila Wakefield
Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden - A Friend to Christine Morgan
Gate A-4 by Naomi Shihab Nye - A Friend to Frances Ainslie
Getting Up Out the Water by Sheryl St. Germain - A Friend to Lori Stephens
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti - A Friend to Rebecca McEwen
Good Lord The Light by Christian Wiman - A Friend to Krista Tippett *±
Grief by Matthew Dickman - A Friend to Rowena Knight *
Hair by Elizabeth Acevedo - A Friend to Fiyin Okupe
Half An Hour by C.P. Cavafy - A Friend to Michael Hanley
Happiness by Raymond Carver - A Friend to Martin Zarrop
Harbor Dawn by Lucy Maud Montgomery - A Friend to Ann Lewis ±
Harlem by Langston Hughes - A Friend to Lennon Mhishi
Having A Coke With You by Frank O'Hara - A Friend to Michael Shaeffer *
Having A Coke With You by Frank O'Hara - A Friend to Rishi Dastidar ±
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by W.B. Yeats - A Friend to Ceni Owen
Here by Philip Larkin - A Friend to Grahame Williams
How Do I Help My Soul Heal by Shannon Anne Script - A Friend to Ruby LeGree
How I Became Impossible by Mary Ruefle - A Friend to Malavika Sindhu Udayan
How Surely Gravity's Law by Rainer Maria Rilke - A Friend to Lisa Rossetti *
How the World Gets Bigger by Alyson Hallet - A Friend to Roxy Dunn *±
How To Be Happy: Another Memo To Myself by Stephen Dunn - A Friend to Eve Lyons
How To Be Perfect by Ron Padgett - A Friend to Dean Atta
Hurrahing in Harvest by Gerard Manley Hopkins - A Friend to Christine Webb
I Am! by John Clare - A Friend to Brian Cox *±
I Am Like A Rose by D.H. Lawrence - A Friend to MaryAnne Smith *±
I carry your heart with me by E.E. Cummings - A Friend to Debs Hart
I Have Forgotten My Father by Jill Abram - A Friend to Jill Abram
I Just Want To Be A Mother by Myka Schwanke - A Friend to Myka Schwanke
I Made My Mind A Beggar’s Bowl by Vir Singh - A Friend to Dave Morgan
I sat at my desk and contemplated all I had accomplished by James Tate - A Friend to Taylor Beidler
I thank you God for most this amazing by E.E. Cummings - A Friend to Maureen P. Kane
I will try by Mary Oliver - A Friend to Barbara Priest
If by Rudyard Kipling - A Friend to Kim Pickin
If by Rudyard Kipling - A Friend to Alex Gracian
If you forget me by Pablo Neruda - A Friend to Katie Cervenak
In My Country by Jackie Kay - A Friend to Degna Stone ±
In Paris by Charles Bane - A Friend to Clara Macri
In Praise Of Limestone by W.H. Auden - A Friend to Jo Bell
Incantation by Alexander Hutchinson - A Friend to Christie Williamson
INRI by Raúl Zurita - A Friend to Ruth Goring
Insensibility by Wilfred Owen - A Friend to Francis Salway
Intellectual Gathering by Kenneth White - A Friend to Sarah Salway
Intimacy by Marge Piercy - A Friend to Jacqueline Kington
Invisible Kisses by Lemn Sissay - A Friend to Maggie Atkinson
Ise L’ogan Ise / Work is the Antidote for Poverty by J. F. Odunjo - A Friend to Francesca Edghere
It ain’t what you do, it’s what it does to you by Simon Armitage - A Friend to Jessica Taylor
Ithaka by C.P. Cavafy - A Friend to Jacqueline Saphra
Ithaka by C.P. Cavafy - A Friend to David Arbus
Ithaka by C.P. Cavafy - A Friend to Caroline Sweeney
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - A Friend to Gregory Leadbetter *±
L'Art by Theophile Gautier - A Friend to Adrian Brett
Labor and Delivery by Tasha Poslaneic - A Friend to Claudia Barwell
Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath - A Friend to Michael Clarke
Last Breath by Jane Lovell - A Friend to Helen Pletts
Last Post by Carol Ann Duffy - A Friend to Jackie Curtis *
Late Fragment by Raymond Carver - A Friend to Jean Laurie
Leisure by W.H. Davies - A Friend to Victoria Eynon
Leisure by W.H. Davies - A Friend to Adrienne O'Sullivan
Let's Play by Kathleen McCreary - A Friend to Kathleen McCreary
Life and Land, May 3rd, 1979 by Maura Dooley - A Friend to Alistair Snell
Like the touch of rain by Edward Thomas - A Friend to Martin De Mello
Little Champion by Tony Hoagland - A Friend to Michael Mark *
Little Gidding by T.S. Eliot - A Friend to Zebedee Alby
Locking yourself out, then trying to get back in by Raymond Carver - A Friend to Elizabeth Neathey
Lousy with unfuckedness, I dream by Amy Key - A Friend to Rishi Dastidar *
Love (III) by George Herbert - A Friend to Julie Batty
Love (III) by George Herbert - A Friend to Jonathan Barnes *
Love (III) by George Herbert - A Friend to Andrew Scott *±
Love After Love by Derek Walcott - A Friend to Jane Edington ±
Love Song for Words by Nazik al-Mala’ika, tr. Rebecca C. Johnson - A Friend to Maryam Alsaeid *±
Loving in Truth by Philip Sidney - A Friend to Steve Constable
Luminary by R.S. Thomas - A Friend to Tim Knight
Lying in Bed in the Dark I Silently Address the Birds of Arizona by Billy Collins - A Friend to Sergios Hadjivasilis
Mathios Paskalis Among the Roses by George Seferis - A Friend to John McAuliffe *
Meditation on Yellow by Olive Senior - A Friend to Maggie Harris
Meeting Point by Louis MacNeice - A Friend to Imtiaz Dharker *
Mending Wall by Robert Frost - A Friend to Daniel Bee
Midlands Kids by Jane Commane - A Friend to Peter Raynard
Miles Away by Carol Ann Duffy - A Friend to Lauren Gauge *
Morning by Frank O'Hara - A Friend to Tamar Yoseloff *
Mother to Son by Langston Hughes - A Friend to Phoebe Batanda
Mountain Lion by D.H. Lawrence - A Friend to Susan Lumsden
Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath - A Friend to Jennifer Woods *±
My Bohemia by Arthur Rimbaud - A Friend to Isabelle Audiger
My Dark Horses by Jodie Hollander - A Friend to Rosie Garland *±
My Enemy's Enemy is my Friend by Gareth Glyn-Roberts - A Friend to Gareth Glyn-Roberts
My Grandmother by Elizabeth Jennings - A Friend to Helen Nicholson
Narcicissm by Salma Abdulatif - A Friend to Salma Kauthar
New Horizon by Gina Stanton - A Friend to Gina Stanton
O Guardador de Rebanhos / The Herd-Keeper (VII) by Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa) - A Friend to Rita
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats - A Friend to Mike Sims
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats - A Friend to Brittany Grech ±
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott - A Friend to Hannah Jewell *
Oh Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman - A Friend to Farah Karim-Cooper *±
Old Friend by Dee Rivaz - A Friend to Dee Rivaz
Old Mary by Gwendolyn Brooks - A Friend to Pete Stones *±
On Children by Khalil Gibran - A Friend to Hafsah Aneela Bashir *±
On Children by Khalil Gibran - A Friend to Danielle Charles
On Marriage by Khalil Gibran - A Friend to India Amos and Samira *
On the Departure Platform by Thomas Hardy - A Friend to Gillian Gregory *
On The Move by Thom Gunn - A Friend to Bert Flitcroft
On the Needle's Point by Edwin Morgan - A Friend to Eric MacLennan
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop - A Friend to Suzanne Iuppa
Only a Rose to Lean On by Hilde Domin, trans. Sarah Kafatou - A Friend to Katrin Dettmer
Our Deepest Fear by Marianne Williamson - A Friend to Ivy Glavee
Our Meetings by Andrew Waterman - A Friend to Diana Bennett
Out of God's Hat by Hafiz, tr. Daniel Ladinsky - A Friend to Mariah Wilde
Per B /For B by Attilio Bertolucci - A Friend to Isy Mead
Pessimism is for Lightweights by Salena Godden - A Friend to Hannah Jane Walker *±
Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou - A Friend to Haya Genawi
Please call me by my true names by Thich Nhat Hanh - A Friend to Peter Moore
Poem in October by Dylan Thomas - A Friend to Alex Pritchard-Jones *
Poem in October by Dylan Thomas - A Friend to Jenny Doe
Poem in October by Dylan Thomas - A Friend to Pat Fairlea
Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed) by Frank O'Hara - A Friend to Harry Jelley *
Poems of Shape and Motion by Martin Carter - A Friend to Mark Mace Smith
Postscript by Seamus Heaney - A Friend to Simon Kew
Postscript by Seamus Heaney - A Friend to Clem Burrows ±
Prayer by Carol Ann Duffy - A Friend to Tricia Waller *±
Prayer by Carol Ann Duffy - A Friend to Rommi Smith
Princes End by Liz Berry - A Friend to Steve Harrison
Proem by Martin Carter - A Friend to Nicholas Laughlin *±
Pulmonary Tuberculosis by Katherine Mansfield - A Friend to Roz Goddard *
Pyramid Scheme by Hera Lyndsay Bird - A Friend to Rupert Goold ±
Remember by Joy Harjo - A Friend to Rachel Eliza Griffiths *±
Remember by Christina Rossetti - A Friend to Carole Moffat
Remember by Christina Rossetti - A Friend to Georgina Chatfield ±
Requiem Mass by Nikki Bennett - A Friend to Nikki Bennett
Residency by Reese Zahner - A Friend to Reese Zahner
Restlessness by D.H. Lawrence - A Friend to Alison McManus *±
Return by C.P. Cavafy - A Friend to Jon Davis *±
Rhondda Grey by Max Boyce - A Friend to Roy Thomas
Sad Music by Roger McGough - A Friend to Alison MacKenzie
Salt Water by Andrew Motion - A Friend to Sarah Bower
Scilla by Louise Glück - A Friend to Sacha Rosel
Scything by Gilian Clarke - A Friend to Holly Rivers
Sea Change by Kate Genevieve - A Friend to Prasanna Puwanarajah *±
She had some horses by Joy Harjo - A Friend to Marge Piercy
Shed of Dance by Alistair Finlayson - A Friend to Richard Day
Sleeping in the Forest by Mary Oliver - A Friend to Rachel Levy
Small Seaside Cottage In West Cork by Maureen Weldon - A Friend to Maureen Weldon
Snow by Vladimir Holan - A Friend to Paul Morran
Snow by Louis MacNeice - A Friend to Gill McEvoy
Snow by Louis MacNeice - A Friend to Rosie Trustram
Sometimes by David Whyte - A Friend to Maya Morgan
Sometimes by Sheenagh Pugh - A Friend to Jann Paton
Sometimes All It Takes by Gill McEvoy - A Friend to Gill McEvoy
Song by Adrienne Rich - A Friend to Vicky Wilson
Song of Myself (V) by Walt Whitman - A Friend to Andrea Holland *±
Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins - A Friend to Anthony Vahni Capildeo *±
Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins - A Friend to Philip
Start Close In by David Whyte - A Friend to Elizabeth Boag
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou - A Friend to Fehmida Master *
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost - A Friend to Victoria Field *
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost - A Friend to Beti Hand
Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen - A Friend to Gary Gach
Stufen / Steps by Herman Hesse - A Friend to Martin Kratz
Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation by Robert Burns - A Friend to James Cozens
Sunny Prestatyn by Philip Larkin - A Friend to Steve Larkin
Take a Poem by James Carter - A Friend to Juliana
Take Hands by Fiona Bennett - A Friend to Fiona Bennett
Tall Nettles by Edward Thomas - A Friend to Robbie Burton
Ten Milk Bottles by Roger McGough - A Friend to David Hann
The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609 by Coleman Stevenson - A Friend to Robert Eversmann
The Baler by Seamus Heaney - A Friend to Rob Kenny
The Bull Moses by Ted Hughes - A Friend to Katherine Pierpoint
The Daughter by Carmen Giminez - A Friend to Gita Raleigh *±
The Death by Heroin of Sid Vicious by Paul Durcan - A Friend to John Crowley *±
The Domestic Science of Sunday Dinner by Lorna Goodison - A Friend to Malika Booker *
The Dry Salvages by T.S. Eliot - A Friend to Alice Willington
The Envoy of Mr. Cogito by Zbigniew Herbert, tr. Bogdana Carpenter - A Friend to Nick Laird *
The Fact We Almost Killed A Badger Is Incidental by Andrew McMillan - A Friend to Christopher R. Moore
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower by Dylan Thomas - A Friend to Angela Smith *
The Fury of Overshoes by Anne Sexton - A Friend to Laura Furner *
The Garden Of Love by William Blake - A Friend to Heather Bolton
The Guest House by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks - A Friend to Yasmin Ali *±
The Horses by Ted Hughes - A Friend to Lewi Martin *
The Hug by Thom Gunn - A Friend to Sam Burt *
The Idea of Order at Key West by Wallace Stevens - A Friend to Kingsley Bray
The Island by A.A. Milne - A Friend to Liis Revell *
The Jumblies by Edward Lear - A Friend to Jill Abram
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats - A Friend to Sue Lawther *±
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats - A Friend to Tom Heavey *
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats - A Friend to Martin Heaney *
The Lamb by William Blake - A Friend to Sally Anglesea
The Last Time by Marie Howe - A Friend to Reese Zahner
The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot - A Friend to Ella Frears *±
The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot - A Friend to Jocelyn Cunningham
The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot - A Friend to Katherine Lockton
The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot - A Friend to Patrick Cash
The Machine by Ted Hughes - A Friend to Lily Rosengard
The Malarkey by Helen Dunmore - A Friend to Dave Wilkinson
The Map by Elizabeth Bishop - A Friend to Tom Bird
The Marriage of Psyche by Kathleen Raine - A Friend to Ann Wilkinson
The moth by Miroslav Holub - A Friend to Claudia Orduz *
The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes - A Friend to Roy McFarlane *±
The Note by Jane Draycott - A Friend to Robbie Burton
The Orange by Wendy Cope - A Friend to Emily Escott
The Other by R.S. Thomas - A Friend to Aziz
The Peace Of Wild Things by Wendell Berry - A Friend to Shirelle Burton
The Peninsula by Seamus Heaney - A Friend to Sarah Butler
The Prelude (Book I, ll. 354-74) by William Wordsworth - A Friend to Charlotte Weber ±
The Republic of Motherhood by Liz Berry - A Friend to Ana Sampson *
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - A Friend to Sonja Zelic
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost - A Friend to Jessica Smith
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost - A Friend to Kelly Banek
The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats - A Friend to Dominic Birch *
The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wandsworth Longfellow - A Friend to Robert Justice
The Stricken Deer by William Cowper - A Friend to Basir Kazmi
The Thrush by Edward Thomas - A Friend to Simon Crompton *
The Trees by Philip Larkin - A Friend to Anne
The Tryst by Jean Brossard - A Friend to Françoise Deconinck
The Walk by Thomas Hardy - A Friend to Cristina Almeida-Unwin
The Way Home by Liz Berry - A Friend to Casey Bailey *
The Way Through The Woods by Rudyard Kipling - A Friend to Linda Collins ±
The Whisperer by Norman Nicholson - A Friend to Tom Kelly
The World as Meditation by Wallace Stevens - A Friend to David Lewsey *
The young Taoist transcends his body by Linda Chase - A Friend to Martin Kratz ±
There Was A Boy by William Wordsworth - A Friend to Joe Hedinger ±
This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin - A Friend to Hannah Brown *
This Moment by Eavan Boland - A Friend to Matthew Dickman
This Poem by Salena Godden - A Friend to Dan Simpson *
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden - A Friend to Matthew Johnson
Timeless by T.H. Gillis - A Friend to Joe Dudeck
Timothy Winters by Charles Causley - A Friend to Tim Kiely *
To a Pupil by Walt Whitman - A Friend to Eve Thompson *
To An English Friend In Africa by Ben Okri - A Friend to Patricia Sumner
To Be Of Use by Marge Piercy - A Friend to Fiona Bennett
To F.S. by Langston Hughes - A Friend to Christine Camorgan
To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall by Kim Addonizio - A Friend to Sallyanne Rock
To Walk in Jerusalem by Lois Bar-Yaacov - A Friend to Keren Bar-Yaacov
Transfiguration by Edwin Muir - A Friend to Margaret Masson *
Truth by Jean 'Binta' Breeze - A Friend to Sue Brown *±
Turns by Tony Harrison - A Friend to Maxine Peake *±
Type of Person by Meline Avagyan - A Friend to Meline Avagyan
Ugly Sister by Philip Larkin - A Friend to Elaine Cusack
Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy - A Friend to Sean Carr
Vers de Société by Philip Larkin - A Friend to Stephen Beresford *±
Voyages II by Hart Crane - A Friend to Subhadassi ±
Walking Away by Cecil Day Lewis - A Friend to Alison Priestley and Stephen Evans
Walking Away by Cecil Day Lewis - A Friend to Tony Kinsella
Warning by Jenny Joseph - A Friend to Jan Reed
What Survives by Rainer Maria Rilke - A Friend to Lois P. Jones *±
When Death Whispers by Mikhail Ikpoma - A Friend to Rukayya Bakari
When Great Trees Fall by Maya Angelou - A Friend to Mari Lewis
When Happiness returns after a long absence by Penelope Shuttle - A Friend to Victoria Field
When I was a Bird by Katherine Mansfield - A Friend to Sarah Salway
Where the Mind is Without Fear by Rabindranath Tagore - A Friend to Linda Kader
Whispers of Immortality by T.S. Eliot - A Friend to Ian Tabbron
White Egrets (I) by Derek Walcott - A Friend to Nick Makoha *
White Eyes by Mary Oliver - A Friend to Shelley Fallows
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver - A Friend to Pavlina Morgan
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver - A Friend to Pat Bakey
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver - A Friend to John Siddique
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver - A Friend to Sally Anglesea
Without You by Adrian Henri - A Friend to Kevan Taplin
Without You by Adrian Henri - A Friend to Julia Bird
Xanadu by Simon Armitage - A Friend to Natasha Jenkins
YHWH’S Image by Scott Cairns - A Friend to Tyler Rice
You Don't Know What Love Is by Kim Addonizio - A Friend to Salena Godden * ±
You're by Sylvia Plath - A Friend to Helen Twigg
5AM by Roxy Dunn - A Friend to Paterson Joseph *±
"Hope" is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson - A Friend to Petra Swendt
"Hope" is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson - A Friend to Lucy Heuschen *±
"Hope" is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson - A Friend to Grace
555 by Madie Kelley - A Friend to Alayna Koop