What does Rachael Matthews say?
If you widen the definition of poetry to include what’s thinkable and worded but unspoken, I’ve always made poems ...
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What does Jane Routh say?
I’m a reader of poetry, and, since you can never trust a cover blurb, I’m a reader of reviews too ...
What does Annie Fisher say?
I write reviews for pleasure and to broaden my reading, but I only review collections I like ...
What does Khadija Rouf say?
I've been writing poetry since I was a kid, being awarded a literary shield when I was 9 years old. I am not sure if that cemented the bug but I grew up adoring books ...
What does Clare Best say?
For my seventh birthday my mum gave me The Golden Treasury of Poetry, selected and with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer ...
What does Matthew Stewart say?
Throughout my childhood and teenage years, I wrote across several genres. It wasn’t till my second year ...
What does say Isabelle Thompson say?
When I was two years old I wanted to be a bus driver or an orchestra conductor – the latter because I wanted to wave my arms about a lot ...
What does Stephen Payne say?
Beginnings and favourites. I enjoyed Keats at O 'Level, but not as much as Maths and Physics. The first poetry I fell hard for ...
What does D. A. Prince say?
Rhyme and rhythm: the rhyming couplets in the Rupert Bear annuals, knowing The Pied Piper of Hamelin by heart when I was four ...
How Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood
Scott Peeples on the weary-but-wise image of Edgar Allan Poe
Inside fire what you get is fire
Victoria Moul reviews Heritage Aesthetics by Anthony Anaxagorou (Granta, 2022)
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Stephen Payne, Clare Best ands Jeremy Wikeley choose poems by Geoffrey Brock, Mark Doty and W.H. Auden