Growing up in the countryside, I suppose it was natural for me to be drawn to nature poetry. The first poetry book I owned was Ted Hughes’ Selected Poems. I still have most of it; the back cover is missing and many of the pages have been punctured or torn by canine teeth – of the…
“‘A Lot of People Bathing in a Stream,’ by Wallace Stevens, has, for some time, been the poem I return to when I have truly lost my way.”
Kathy Miles reviews collections from Glyn Edwards, Maggie Harris and Hanan Issa.
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Anna Lewis reviews books by Eleanor Rees and David Clarke.
