When I was a child there was something called ‘Chip Club’ – a leaflet given out at school once or twice a year, from which we could order books. I was lucky, my mum always bought me a book, and in 1974 I chose 100+ American Poems, edited by Paul Molloy. Why? Maybe for the…
Day: 17 June 2020
A Poetry Library for Wales, Adam Sillman & Rhys Owain Williams (Poetry Wales 55.3)
Why didn’t Wales have one? Where should one be established? Who should be involved? Typically the conversation would conclude in one of two ways: enthusiastically agreeing to boozy plans to open a poetry library ourselves, or reasoning that someone, somewhere, must already be doing something.