Category: Poetry
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*TW: Mental health, suicide* Anne Sexton’s work in poetry generally seems to have been left behind by many. This may speak to a general preference within popular poetry to focus more so on stories of redemption, whilst Sexton’s usually bleak outlook – and her bleaker personal life, made public – take her work away from…
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Kubla Khan – Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan is a transcription of a dream-vision Samuel Taylor Coleridge experienced whilst under the influence of opium, the entire poem was inspired by a travel book, Purchas His Pilgrimage. Coleridge began to focus on the line “at Zanadu Kubla Khan built a pleasure palace”, this line opened Coleridge’s…
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Our beloved city Southampton has many ties to international renowned writers who created the foundation for literature, through their classic novels and poems. Some of our writers look at their favourites.
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Social Media poetry, poetry or a trend? Callum Holgate creates the term ‘Fast Food Poetry’ and the lack of meaning it provides.
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It’s here. Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass is here in hardback, audiobook, vinyl and cassette glory.