{"id":43130,"date":"2015-10-08T18:49:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43130"},"modified":"2016-06-06T00:44:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T00:44:40","slug":"12-british-poets-share-their-favourite-poems-for-nationalpoetryday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43130","title":{"rendered":"12 British Poets Share Their Favourite Poems For #NationalPoetryDay"},"content":{"rendered":"

12 British Poets Share Their Favourite Poems For #NationalPoetryDay<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

BuzzFeed<\/a>
\n2015-10-08<\/p>\n

Fiona Rutherford<\/a><\/strong>, BuzzFeed News Reporter
\nLondon, England<\/em><\/p>\n

…3. Rachel Long<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nAmaal Said<\/small><\/p>\n

Age<\/strong>: 26<\/p>\n

Themes in your work<\/strong>: Sexuality, growing up, hurt, mixed parentage, love, eating disorders, death, dreams.<\/p>\n

Favourite poem<\/strong>: Impossible to choose. I\u2019ve sat here for a half hour with fingers over keys or in my hair. I can\u2019t call it between: \u201cIn The Book of The Disappearing Book<\/a>\u201d by John Gallaher<\/a>, \u201cThe Ugly Daughter<\/a>\u201d by Warsan Shire<\/a>, \u201cSnow<\/a>\u201d by David Berman<\/a>, \u201cSex Without Love<\/a>\u201d by Sharon Olds<\/a>, and \u201cOf August\u201d by Karen McCarthy Woolf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What comes to mind when you think of the word \u201clight\u201d? Marlboro, that sunrise, a macro photograph of oestrogen taken by science photographer Lennart Nilsson<\/a> that looks like a firework. It was stunning to see, and to know that we have this exploding, all the time, on the inside of our bodies…<\/p>\n

…5. Hannah Lowe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nTim Ridley<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

Age<\/strong>: 39<\/p>\n

Themes in your work<\/strong>: Working-class lives, multiculturalism, London<\/a>, migration, diaspora.<\/p>\n

Favourite poem<\/strong>: \u201cThe Mercy<\/a>\u201d by Philip Levine<\/a> \u2013 one of many favourites.<\/p>\n

What comes to mind when you think of the word \u201clight\u201d? Funnily enough, electric lights come to mind rather than daylight. I\u2019m thinking of the way we light the night. It must be living in London\u2026 street lights, neon signs, security lights. From my back window I look out over Wood Green<\/a> and Tottenham<\/a>, all the way to Walthamstow<\/a>, and there\u2019s a real clatter of light out there, from houses and flats, office blocks, sometimes a star or two…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

12 British Poets Share Their Favourite Poems For #NationalPoetryDay BuzzFeed 2015-10-08 Fiona Rutherford, BuzzFeed News Reporter London, England …3. Rachel Long Amaal Said Age: 26 Themes in your work: Sexuality, growing up, hurt, mixed parentage, love, eating disorders, death, dreams. Favourite poem: Impossible to choose. I\u2019ve sat here for a half hour with fingers over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,10],"tags":[13345,21343,21338,12141,21341,21344,21339,12205,21345,21340,21342],"class_list":["post-43130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-buzzfeed","tag-david-berman","tag-fiona-rutherford","tag-hannah-lowe","tag-john-gallaher","tag-karen-mccarthy-woolf","tag-lennart-nilsson","tag-philip-levine","tag-rachel-long","tag-sharon-olds","tag-warsan-shire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43132,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43130\/revisions\/43132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}