Category: Reviews & Essays
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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
Just after 19:30pm on Saturday 24th February 2024 ,Bohdan Piasecki came onto Birmingham’s Hippodrome stage. Originally from Poland, he has been living in the UK for 18 years and started…
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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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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…
