Poet laureate drawn back to home village with book of poems about Marsden
The poet laureate Simon Armitage is next month publishing a new collection of poems focused on Marsden in West Yorkshire – the Pennine village where he grew up. Magnetic Field brings together Armitage’s Marsden poems, from his first pamphlet to new work from a forthcoming collection. According to his publishers Faber, it offers a perspective on a locality he describes as a genuinely unique region forming “a frontier territory ...
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Paul McGrane of the Poetry Society will be judging the Brian Dempsey Memorial competition, with prizes for a pamphlet, and for a single poem. It is or...
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