I’ve decided it’s time to get back to regular posts about weekend poetry reading. I’ve been doing the reading but not finding the time to mention it. This weekend I’m re-reading the truly wonderful sequence of sonnets ‘A Bargain with the Light’, which was one of my favourite books of 2017 and also chosen by…
Week 1 1st April to 8th April We will be reading the first seven poems in Loop of Jade for the first week. Some people have only just ordered their copies so we have a gentle start for the readalong. In later weeks we’ll be considering ten poems per week. Loop of Jade opens with…
In celebration of April being National Poetry Month I am going to be reading Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade which won the T.S.Eliot prize in January 2016. It works out at about a poem a day and once a week I’ll post an update on my progress. You’d be most welcome to read along with…