The self

Professor Andrew Bennett discusses the idea of authorship. 

Bill Greenwell adapts one of Wordsworth’s poems ‘To daffodils’ in the voice of Thomas De Quincy. 

Authors discuss the literature they were exposed to as children. 

Poetry. 

Four poets on old stories, cultural memory, and minority languages.

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If the poets of the past sat in their garrets dipping their quills in ink, waiting for inspiration to strike, our current Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has a more mundane and domestic arrangement. From his wooden shed in the garden, surrounded on all sides by the Pennine Hills and ...  Show more