Ten Poems about Friendship

Ten Poems about Friendship is a selection of ten funny, poignant and refreshingly honest poems deals with the reality of friendship in all its forms.

Poems that will take you back to childhood alliances at school then onto the teenage years and then into the companionship and the redemption of old age. 

Lorraine Mariner shows that friendship poems come in as many different shapes and sizes as our friends themselves do

"Half my friends are dead.
I will make you new ones, said earth.
No, give them back, as they were, instead,
with faults and all, I cried"
- from 'Sea Canes' by Derek Walcott

Poems by Edwin Brock, Polly Clark, Elizabeth Jennings, Jackie Kay, Lorraine Mariner, Alden Nowlan, May Sarton, Stevie Smith, Derek Walcott and Emily Wills.

Cover illustration by Sarah Kirby

Supplied with envelope and bookmark and can be sent instead of a greeting card