Actor, presenter and now author Larry Lamb reveals why the written word – particularly verse – has always meant so much to him

TOM! What are you doing here?” I stopped gazing at the empty space in the centre of the table, to throw myself into my fiancé’s arms. “You’re not supposed to be here until tonight,” I told him. “I dec

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