Poetry

From My Poetry Bookshelf – The Nightfishing by WS Graham

The second in my (weekly?) series of posts about poets whose work I go back to regularly, and whose writing has influenced my own work, is about WS Graham, particularly in relation to his poem The Nightfishing. Born in Greenock in 1918, Graham moved to Cornwall in 1944, where he lived until his death in 1986. Whilst more well-known poets such as TS Eliot and Hugh Macdiarmid supported his work, Graham wasn’t particularly successful during…

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Poetry

From My Poetry Bookshelf – Mark Doty

This is the first in a new series of posts where I will be recommending poets and poetry books from my own bookshelf. They may be full reviews of specific titles, or more general pieces about why I like and return to specific writers / books or particular poems. Part of my strategy for developing this blog this year is to be more outward looking – this may be in terms of poetry books, magazines,…

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