You are the player. Wake up.
Inigo Brodie on the story behind the Minecraft End Poem, and how sometimes poetry is the only option
Ender Dragon Image: Mojang/Microsoft
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Choose a poem, learn it by heart, share it out loud
Julie Blake, co-founder of Poetry By Heart, talks about the benefits of learning poetry, the joys of performance, and the Poetry By Heart national poetry speaking competition
Photos by Sam Strickland
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Matthew Paul, Charlotte Gann and Rory Waterman choose poems by Geoff Hattersley, Kathy Pimlott and Wendy Cope
All Quite Thoroughly Dirty (Part Two)
Alan Buckley continues his close reading of ‘Filling Station’ by Elizabeth Bishop (Part Two)
All Quite Thoroughly Dirty
Alan Buckley looks at ‘Filling Station’ by Elizabeth Bishop (Part One)
The difficult visiting times
Philip Gross discusses writing poetry about his family in The Wasting Game and Deep Field, the importance of self-knowledge, and what makes a 'good' poem
Poetry in Uganda
Rowan Bell visits Kampala and meets Mercy Geno Apachi, performance poet, and Jordan Megolonyo, founder of the Klan poetry house
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Mat Riches, Jane Routh and Alan Buckley choose favourite funny-serious poems by Matthew Sweeney, Michael McCarthy and Kathryn Maris
What’s on Maria Taylor’s bookshelf?
British Cypriot poet and reviewer Maria Taylor tells us which books have been important to her in her life and in her poetry
Down in the soily waters
Natalie Shaw gives us a close reading of the poem 'Maybe; maybe not' by Denise Riley
Pierre Bonnard and the art of writing poetry
Rowan Bell on impressionist Pierre Bonnard and the art of writing poetry