A quick plug for Fair Play, the Dempsey & Windle anthology of last month’s event celebrating the CDLVIIth Birthday of William Shakespeare. I shared a recording of the event here last week, but if it’s a print version you are after you can get it here; https://www.dempseyandwindle.com/anthologies.html
Anyone reading these poetry bookshelf posts will have seen that I haven’t, as yet, written much about any of the canonical poets, those who everyone says are the best, the most important, those you must read to get a proper understanding of poetry. The truth is I’m a little intimidated about doing so. I know that it will expose my lack of reading, my lack of education (I only took English to O Level at…