Middle of the road poetry? Walking poet Lucy Furlong gets down to the grassroots
An eco-poet has taken the concept of grassroots poetry down to a new level – by writing about the nature to be found on a section of central reservation on a dual carriageway. Lucy Furlong’s chapbook Sward includes a look in great detail at the plants – and rubbish – in the middle of the A240 Kingston Road, from the Tolworth junction with the A3, to the nearby border between London and Surrey. One of her prose-poems in Sward,...
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The British-Trinidadian poet, writer, musician and performer Roger Robinson has won the £25,000 TS Eliot prize for his collection A Portable Paradise....
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It’s Bolton Write Out Loud at Bolton Socialist Club on Sunday 19 January. Join hosts Jeffarama! and Gordon Zola for this open-mic poetry event. Arrive...
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16th Jan 2020 8:06 am
Bereavement, loss and love interweave in Anne Stewart’s latest collection. Her sequence ‘The Last Parent’, 31 poems that make half of the collection, ...
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