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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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