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When I won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry in 2014 there was a little glow in my heart for about a year. That's faded ... Read More

Thank you so much for this reminder that there are more than one ways to skin a poem and be a poet.

Lizzie, I read this as more than one way to skin a poet -- which also true. Though no skinning today, thank goodness...

Thanks Nell for supplying some depth and context - local history / local colour - to the festival.

Lovely to meet you there in person at last!

And you, Mandy -- next time we'll try and do it over a glass. :-)