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During the Olympic and Paralympic games our Poetry Champions groups around the country read the Winning Words anthology and shared their views on the poems. To round off the project we've asked our groups to suggest poems and books they've enjoyed reading which have a Christmas or winter theme. Grays Friday Poetry Group We recently read a Christmas story called The… more
The shortlist for the T S Eliot Prize for Poetry 2012 has just been announced: Simon Armitage The Death of King Arthur (Faber) Sean Borodale Bee Journal (Jonathan Cape) Gillian Clarke Ice (Carcanet) Julia Copus The World's Two Smallest Humans (Faber) Paul Farley The Dark Film (Picador) Jorie Graham P L A C E (Carcanet) Kathleen Jamie The Overhaul (Picador) Sharon… more
Do you remember the Queen's Coronation? The Kennedy assassination? Beatniks and hippies? The Miners' Strike and Greenham Common? The Great Storm and the Ash Cloud? Jubilee Lines: 60 Years in 60 Poems is a new poetry anthology by Faber to mark National Poetry Day 2012. With a poem for each of the years of the Queen's reign, Jubilee Lines offers a… more
