Poetry needs readers from beyond its bubble. It's got to engage with stuff that might not seem "poetic", reaching out to people who think poems are irrelevant to their lives. That was my aim when writing my sequence Starting Eleven - Aldershot F.C. Footballers of the 1980s, which is featured today on Wild Court (see here).
First post of 2025...!
It's been a while since I've sent poems out into the world though I've been
writing away in the background. Anyway, I'm pleased t...
Thanks for picking my home team. But why did you pick on them?
ReplyDeleteBecause they're my home team too, Rodney. I'm from Farnham.
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