Today we add a reading resources for young poets page to this website. During this extraordinary moment that we are living through we wanted to put up some resources for reading poetry that we have found and which we hope you will find useful, both in terms of stretching your reading tastes, and as inspiration for your own writing. Some of the blogs we have signposted are responding to the Covid-19 lockdown, while others offer readers some unusual new voices and perspectives to explore.
We would love to hear which poetry blogs you are reading and following. Do let us know in the comments section below and we will do our best to list them on the page.
I am a lecturer, poet and writing tutor. I work in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter. My anthology Lifesaving Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015. In 2012 I published Riddance (Worple Press), a collection of poems, and Love for Now (Impress Books), a memoir, about my experience of cancer. My most recent books are Deck Shoes (Impress Books, 2019), a book of prose memoir and criticism, and The Afterlife (Worple Press, 2019). In 2023 I will publish The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, with Blue Diode Press. My current research project, with Sue Dymoke from Nottingham Trent University and funded by the Foyle Foundation, is Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/. This blog is archived by the British Library.
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