As my third-year poets worked all year toward producing cohesive, ambitious pamphlets, I was happy to arrange a reading for them at The Bath Brew House, where each could read three poems to show a selection of work. One student persuaded me that if they were going to make physical pamphlets, I could write them each a single-sentence blurb, so those blurbs appear below each reader.
"In the thoughtful pamphlet Twenty Two, Nick Compton presents a life
in one’s twenties as mingling fond memories of childhood with the vividness of
present experience, through precise imagery that shows the power of small
moments."
"In De
La Mer, Lizzie Martin moves deftly among myth, tragedy and family in a
series of evocative and often poignant poems."
"In Tigers
and Other Beasts, Ben Halford skillfully evokes India’s exotic animals in
their extraordinary beauty and ordinary violence."
"In Theos,
Mairead Miller reimagines Greek mythology, giving voice to the often
voiceless, airing new interpretations, in a series of original and passionate
poems."
"Maddy Heal’s whimsical and original
pamphlet, Spirit Animals, uses real
and imagined relationships with animals to explore our humanity in poems that
manifest their depth on repeated readings."
Good luck to them all!
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