Poems in Progress: Drafts from Master Poets Jo Brandon Its poetry makes quietly insistent

Its poetry makes quietly insistent demands uppon the reader: "In the stillness

Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems brings together Jamaican Poet Laureate Olive Senior's first four books of poetry alongside a new collection

and our attachment to certain places and the forces they exert

perhaps you’ll want to chuckle at them under the covers with a torch

that he published or submitted for publication

Poems in Progress: Drafts from Master Poets Jo Brandon Its poetry makes quietly insistentContributors include: Simon Armitage, Kathleen Jamie, Benjamin Zephaniah, Caroline Bird, Hollie McNish, Fiona Benson, Liz Berry, Rebecca Goss, Pascale Petit and many more. Ask two poets what a first draft looks like and youll get wildly different answers. From typed pages with delicate annotation to scribbles in a dog eared notebook, drafts tell us so much more about poems and poets than the published versions ever could. Themed chapters allow for