Category: Reviews/Essays/Recommendations
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3 Poems by 3 Poets March 2024- Mothers Day Special
Welcome to this month’s 3 poems by 3 poets. As it’s Mother’s Day here in the UK, I thought I’d dedicate this month’s selection to our mums. The first poem…
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A Review of Verve Poetry Festival’s Saturday night headliner: Luke Wright’s Silver Jubilee performance with special guest; Bohdan Piasecki. Online Ticket
Luke Wright’s Silver Jubilee Performance at Birmingham’s Hippodrome as apart of Verve Poetry Festival was well worth the watch and with special guest Bohdan Piasecki, they both put on a…
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3 Poems by 3 Poets: February 2024 ✍
Welcome back to another addition of 3 Poems by 3 Poets. If you haven’t read the first post of January’s choices, this is a monthly post where I will share…
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“Thoughts from a Sunflower”: Pre-release Review!
A couple months ago I interviewed the author Cody Roach about his creative process for my blog. Well now I am happy to announce that tomorrow Saturday 20th January 2024,…
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Maya Angelou’s Collection:“And Still I Rise”
This article is one that I have put off publishing for a while; mainly due to the vulnerability I admit to feeling associated with this collection. I picked up this…
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Edna St Vincent Millay- “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why”
A Short Analysis of Edna St Vincent Millay’s poem “ What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why.” This poem by Edna St Vincent Millay was released in…
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A Very Brief Few Words on: Langston Hughes
Born on 1st February 1901, in Joplin Missouri, Hughes had mixed ancestry, he was a descendant of black slaves and of white slave owners in Kentucky. Langston after school attended…
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Why I Write Free Verse
Despite having knowledge of techniques in poetry ( yes surprisingly poetry does have theory behind it) , I’m not someone who really experiments much with form and metre myself. If…
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Alternative Anthem by John Agard
I am currently undertaking an online short poetry course with the Oxford University and to aid us in thinking about the question of what is poetry? We were asked to…
Megan Layley 