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Helen
Laycock

Poetry

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W.H. Auden said, 'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'

Poetry, to me, is a way of distilling experience and emotion into a powerful package which lingers and echoes after reading,

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There are links in the menu to a few pieces, but the books are where you will find each theme explored in depth. Work published in anthologies and journals is referenced, and mostly linked, in my BIO.

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Look out for forthcoming collections...

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” 

Robert Frost

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If you would like to comment about a particular poem, please would you mention the title as the same comment box appears on every page. Thank you.

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