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Reading poetry #1: Edwin Muir (1887-1959), 'The Transmutation'. This collection published in 1976 by @CambridgeUP.
Reading poetry #2: Alice Oswald's fantastic Nobody, published in 2019 by @JonathanCape.
Reading poetry #3: Paula Meehan, 'Playing House', from her fourth poetry collection Pillow Talk, published on 22 July 1994 by @TheGalleryPress. #irishpoetry
Reading poetry #4: spellbound in a place of spells.
Gillian Clarke, 'At Ystrad Fflûr', from this selection published in 1985 in @Carcanet's Poetry Signatures series.
This poem from her collection The Sundial (1978), originally published by @GwasgGomerPress of Wales.
Gillian Clarke, 'At Ystrad Fflûr', from this selection published in 1985 in @Carcanet's Poetry Signatures series.
This poem from her collection The Sundial (1978), originally published by @GwasgGomerPress of Wales.
Reading poetry #5: I'm very pleased to own a copy of this rich and beautiful collection by Amy Clampitt, published by Alfred A. Knopf in the USA on 24 January 1983 (my copy the seventh printing of October 1985).
'Gradual Clearing', from The Kingfisher (Part I: Fire and Water).
'Gradual Clearing', from The Kingfisher (Part I: Fire and Water).
Reading poetry #6: Aileen Ballantyne ( @ailyballantyne)'s finely crafted, intense, lyrical poetry collection Taking Flight, published in 2019 by @LuathPress of Edinburgh.
'Starlight from Saturn' is a favourite. #scottishpoetry
'Starlight from Saturn' is a favourite. #scottishpoetry
