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Who Gets to Write? Class, Work and the Politics of Poetry Today

As part of our Poetry Craft series, Ruth Beddow discusses class, work and the politics of poetry today. Before we talk about whose poetry gets published, promoted or awarded, we need to ask: who gets to write in the first place? A myth of ‘working-class writing’? In recent years, we’ve seen Joelle Taylor (raised in…

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