In The Event by John Birtwhistle Azita Ghahreman Emily Wilding Davison and Edith

Emily Wilding Davison and Edith Thompson

Who Is Mary Sue

poems that touch the heart

whose lives are held together by ideas

or the spontaneous and cathartic practice of the writer’s ‘morning pages’ – until they reach the book’s arresting central sequence

In The Event by John Birtwhistle Azita Ghahreman Emily Wilding Davison and EdithJohn Birtwhistle has said that 'one writes each poem just to learn how to write it', and insists that he 'doesnt care a dried pea for Artistic Development or Finding One's Own Voice'. The result, of course, is that a strongly recognisable voice comes through. For all their variety of forms and ideas, his poems are consistent in their visual precision, their scrupulous phrasing and their formal clarity. These qualities are brought to everything he