This very special event is a reading by Philip Gross and Lesley Saunders from their collaborative book, A Part of the Main (Mulfran Press.) Written during the political upheavals of 2016-2017, A Part of the Main is an urgent, passionate conversation carried out through poetry, which gives space to pressing questions about individual and national identity. Philip and Lesley’s…
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Andrew Spragg on how he writes a poem
“If you are not reading likely you are not writing.” Be wary of others’ methods or manifestos. Any sort of declaration. Two degrees, ten books and less sure than ever. It happens rarely every day. A few things resonate more than others – Tom Raworth’s Earn Your Milk (especially ‘Letters from Yaddo’ and ‘Letter to Martin Stannard’);…