In a culture that has consigned poetry to the margins, Simon Armitage has become something very rare: a genuinely popular British poet.
Charlotte Runcie: What are public poets for? A bit of sound and fury, that's what.
The merits of their literary output is beside the point. Desperate times call for literary heroes.
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews
Robert Peak, an American poet in England, says conceptual poetry is not about people; it is about ideas.
www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-peake/bad-ideas-poetry-authenticity-and-power
The poet, novelist and playwright on family, Britain’s child soldiers and hating novels set in Hampstead (and then writing one)
www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/13/owen-sheers-interview
Helena Nelson explains why she fell in love with a poem at first sight and gives some insight into what makes a poem grab the attention.
www.happenstancepress.org/index.php/blog/entry/why-i-like-this-poem
Chrissie Gittins says it’s time to get confident about children’s poetry, children love it – so publishers,
bookshops and libraries should stop hiding it and start celebrating
www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/apr/28/why-is-childrens-poetry-so-invisible
Centre for Literacy in Primary Education Poetry Award 2015 shortlist
www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/apr/28/clpe-poetry-award-2015-shortlist
Jonathan Edwards takes the reader through his process for writing a particular poem
www.campus.poetryschool.com/how-to-renovate-a-morris-minor
‘Some people use poetry to express heartache, but I use it to broadcast a message’
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/11/george-the-poet-protesting-with-poetry
Poet Iain S Thomas says why people should read more poetry.
www.huffingtonpost.com/iain-s-thomas/why-you-should-read-more-poetry
The main obstacle to understanding poetry, whether you are talking about Keats or Shelley or Whitman
or even Leonard Cohen, is our ingrained tendency to be very literal in communication.
www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2015/02/25/why_is_poetry_difficult_to_understand.html
North East Poet Kate Fox raises the issue of what poets should be paid.
www.katefoxwriter.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/where-theres-poems-theres-brass
Martin Crucefix is half way through the process of judging this year’s Torriano Poetry Competition and offers
a compilation of thoughts on the judging process.
Penning poetry for the one you love? Here are five basic rules by Britain’s former poet laureate
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/11/andrew-motion-how-write-love-poem-poetry
John M Sweeney says
'if anyone could predict which books will sell, publishing wouldn't be the dumb business it really is.'
