So your poem’s on a shortlist? So what?
“I look at some anthologies and wonder why these poets have been published.” That was the most striking line in Glyn Maxwell’s speech yesterday. He judged the Live Canon International Poetry Prize, and...
View ArticlePoetry and politics: Live Canon’s Election Special
Tomorrow, we vote. Today, we have poems. Billy Bragg once sang ‘mixing pop and politics – they ask me what the use is’. The Live Canon Election Special shows that people have been writing about...
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I’ve been neglecting this blog: sorry. We’ve all been doing other things over the summer and I bet you didn’t notice. I’m throwing this one in here because – while I’m busy writing Novel 2 before Life,...
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