Category: poetry

  • Happy National Poetry Day 2017

    Happy National Poetry Day 2017

    Happy National Poetry Day! For those who don’t know “National Poetry Day is an annual celebration that inspires people throughout the UK to enjoy, discover and share poems. Everyone is invited to join in, whether by organising events, displays, competitions or by simply posting favourite lines of poetry on social media using #nationalpoetryday. National Poetry…

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  • Review | Wishing for Birds by Elisabeth Hewer

    Review | Wishing for Birds by Elisabeth Hewer

    Title: Wishing for Birds (2016) Author: Elisabeth Hewer Read: 21st January 2017 Genre: poetry Rating: 5 out of 5 stars In this breath-takingly beautiful debut collection, Elisabeth Hewer displays a sense of lyricism and astuteness that make her poetry sing. “Rebellion sits well on you like a red coat or the gilt gold burnish of youth” Collecting together sixty…

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  • National Poetry Day: My Favourites

    In case you’ve miraculous missed it on the news, the BBC, news websites, or Twitter, today is National Poetry Day. I will be the first to admit that, despite being a literature student, my poetry knowledge is shamefully limited at best. Let alone modern poetry or, worse still, performance poetry – a whole world that I just haven’t explored enough to form…

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