It's National Poetry Day today, and the four Faber New Poets were asked to write a small piece for Faber's blog, The Thoughtfox about a war poet or poem that has stayed with us in some way, or influenced our writing.
I wrote about Robert Graves and the other pieces are wonderfully written and well worth a read.
http://thethoughtfox.co.uk/remember
I'm involved in a couple of events at Branchage festival in Jersey, starting later on this week, and I'm really looking forward to them.
I'll be discussing Karl Marx and his legacy and continued (arguably increasing) relevance, as well as Dylan Thomas and the wider idea of writing and drinking at two specific events, but will also be reading poems at two Caught by the River curated events.
Tickets to all four can be purchased here... hopefully see a few friendly faces there.
All four of the Faber New Poets' pamphlets are now available to pre-order from the Caught by the River bookshop, here.
A bit of information about the dates and venues for our tour in October can be found here:
http://faberpoetry.co.uk/2014/08/26/faber-new-poets-on-tour-october-2014/#more-409
Needless to say it’s an honour to be part of this scheme and hugely exciting to be sharing a stage with three incredible writers during the tour. Hope a few of you can make it out.
For the last couple of years I have helped out reading poetry submissions for the wonderful literary magazine Structo. They were actually the first print publication to take any of my poems and a couple of weeks ago, I did a very brief interview with the editor, a smart and absurdly good man called Euan. Here’s what he said. And what I said back…
http://structomagazine.co.uk/our-very-own-faber-new-poet-will-burns-interview/