RESIDENTS in a Cockermouth care home are about to publish their first poetry book. The collection of poems – written by residents of Hames Hall Residential Care Home – will be released in the summer.

It started as a plan to help her customers, but soon stationery shop owner Rebecca McMillan, 34, from Cheltenham, realised she’d hit on something far bigger than she could ever have realised…

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‘They shut me up in Prose – As when a little Girl They put me in the Closet – Because they liked me “still”.’ The words (and eccentric capitalisation) are Emily Dickinson’s, the opening salvo in a bol

The list poem is a highly effective device. It can be straightforward or complex, obvious or subtle, occupying the whole poem or just a few lines, and sometimes we can even use it without realising we

YOU can’t just throw it all in a skip, Mum!” Bryony’s voice was muffled by a dust mask as she crouched in the loft space, carefully avoiding bumping her head on the beams. She examined a battered trun