'I started as the poetry critic for The Sunday Times in January 2022. “Your main qualification,” the books editor said, offering me the role, “is that you have no friends.” Reviewing poetry for four years, I’ve even fewer friends now.' Love this opener from
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The 3 rules for writing great poems — by our poetry critic
Graeme Richardson waited until he was 50 to publish his first poetry collection, Dirt Rich. He explains how he fell in love with language as a Nottinghamshire choir boy