Friend: Poems by Young People

Kate Clanchy

• Friend was a victim of the furore surrounding Kate Clanchy’s work – it was initially going to be published in September 2021.
• Swift are proud finally to be publishing it, to allow the poems – mostly by students from a multiethnic comprehensive school – to reach a greater audience
• Kate Clanchy’s previous collection of poems as editor, England: Poems from a School, bookscanned over 6,500 copies.