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Is there such a thing as working class British poetry?

Novelist and creative writing teacher Louise Tondeur explores class and poetry in contemporary Britain and interviews Katrina Naomi, Sarah Barnsley and Valerie Laws about their social and political experiences.

I’m a novelist and I’ve also published a very small amount of poetry in the Rialto, for example, and more recently Forgotten Letters: An Anthology of [...]

Hazel Buchan Cameron asks “If poetry is art, then why not treat it accordingly?”

It has been ten years since I published my first pamphlet; a good point to reflect on the world of poetry publishing and the changes over that time.

When I joined a writing group back then, I discovered that many people write poetry but few read it and that some excellent poets remain unpublished despite [...]

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