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What does Maggie Mackay say?

I found poetry through the Open University creative writing courses which I studied after retirement from teaching ...

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What does Charlotte Gann say?

I loved it studying English at school. I remember being cast as First Voice in Under Milk Wood in the school play ...

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What does Steven Lovatt say?

How did I get into poetry? Externally, having librarians for parents helped. Temperamentally it’s more complicated ...

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What does Rory Waterman say?

At primary school, we had a teacher who encouraged us to write poems, and I realised I was relatively good at putting words into action ...

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A pastel hued watercolour of two older people in a squashy bed/ A woman on the left and a man on the right. They are wearing pyjamas and appear to be sleeping in a loose embrace

He turns to her, she turns to him

Annie Fisher reviews Pearls: the complete Mr and Mrs Philpott poems by Helena Nelson (HappenStance, 2022)

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Castaway Companions

We asked poets to choose three poems which they would take with them if they were stranded on a desert island. We wanted to know where they first read them, why they have particular significance and how they have impacted their own work. Read their responses — funny, moving and eloquent.

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Bruno Cooke

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Chris Edgoose

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Charlotte Gann

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Steven Lovatt

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Richie McCaffery

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Hilary Menos

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