Maggie Smith on the mutual reflection of poetry
How We Live Now with Katherine May
I Love Poetry, I Love It
i think there's a sense with poetry that you almost don't want to read more than one or two poems at a time. Ah, so poor was helen. It really is. But actually, and, i think poems are built to be savoured. They're not really built to be skimmed,. even though the, they're often short, and they, they perhaps could be. I think of every poem as an invitation to really end a lot of time with that poem. Like we need have the confidence as readers to have that encounter with one or two or three rather than trying to blump the whole book down like we might do with a novel.
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