Ten funny, poignant and refreshingly honest poems dealing with the reality of friendship in all its forms. From childhood alliances through the angst of teenage years into the companionship and redemption of old age, Lorraine Mariner shows that friendship poems come in as many different shapes and sizes as our friends themselves. Poems by Edwin Brock, Polly Clark, Elizabeth Jennings, Jackie Kay, Lorraine Mariner, Alden Nowlan, May Sarton, Stevie Smith, Derek Walcott and Emily Wills.