Most poets will tell you that they are influenced by other poets, but what they are really influenced by is their own heart, by the hearts of others, and by drink...
The Poetry Library has acquired issues 8,9 & 11-31 of El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn. Published in Mexico City between 1962 and 1969, this beautiful looking magazine...
The Poetry Library has acquired several new titles by Gordon Jackson from Asgill Press. Jackson, whose The Lincoln Psalter was published by Carcanet in 1997, has been described by Donald Davie as 'a child of the sixties...'
Like to know more about the Beat poets but without the time to wade through a scholarly history? Then The beats : a graphic history could be the book you've been waiting for.
New to the Library is, The shortest days by Elizabeth Burns, which won the Michael Marks Award for outstanding work in poetry published in pamphlet form.
On this CD published to coincide with the poet's appointment as first ever female Poet Laureate, succeeding Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy reads from her T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection Rapture.
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