The writing of poetry has fallen behind the business of poetry lately, and while that’s sometimes how it has to be, I feel it like a crick in my neck. When you ignore the poems, they stop coming and I’m always afraid that I’ll have neglected them too long. But I tend to find my…
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I’m reading Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal, Jeanette Winterson’s memoir. It arrived as a gift, straight to my door because someone lovely really gets where I am right now. Winterson writes: So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be…
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