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Vicky Arthurs

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Get Vicky's FREE creative poetry pack now. Includes selected poems, insights into what inspired them, plus tips to kickstart your own creativity.

Vicky Arthurs is a British poet and narrator who writes about everyday life with warmth and charm. Her first book of poems Limehaven (Poems for my grandparents) is available worldwide in print and audiobook editions.

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IRON Press: fifty@fifty

Watch House, Cullercoats A poetry marathon celebrating half a century of publishing by IRON Press, compered by founding editor Peter Mortimer. This all-day reading featured fifty poets associated with the press over the last fifty years, including the poet laureate Simon Armitage.

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Limehaven: Poems for my grandparents
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Kate Heiss (Illustrator)

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“A novel is a hearty meal, but poems are the Belgian chocolates of the bookshelf. You can pick one and linger over it. Savour the aroma, the taste, the melting texture, the sweet craving it leaves behind! Or you can scoff down as many as you can eat. It’s up to you.”
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