Simon Barraclough – Our Life Stories by Michael Donaghy
Olivia Cole – The Shampoo by Elizabeth Bishop
Dorothy Dean-Walton – The Poet and the Ingenue
Isobel Dixon – ‘Let me into your grief’: Home Burial by Robert Frost
Katy Evans-Bush – ‘My People Were Magicians’: James Merrill and Michael Donaghy
Paul Farley – In the Pop-up Planetarium: A Birthday Poem by Anthony Hecht
Kathryn Gray – Escape Room: The Writer by Richard Wilbur
Sinéad Hemsley – The Story of the White Cup by Roger Mitchell
June Lausch – Men at Forty by Donald Justice
Rebecca O’Connor – The Magician: Musée des Beaux Arts by W.H.Auden
Andrew Neilson – Inferno, I, 32 by Jorge Luis Borges
Maddy Paxman – Life of the Poet(ry teacher)
John Stammers – Green Sees Things in Waves by August Kleinzahler
Greta Stoddart – Bag of Tricks
Róisín Tierney – Ode on Melancholy by John Keats
Julian Turner – My Apprenticeship: Stormy Day by W.R.Rodgers
Thank you, Maddy. I went regularly to Michael’s class for three years. He was unfailingly thoughtful and sensitive.
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