Poems in Progress: Drafts from Master Poets Michael Mackmin 2006) collecting a quarter century's

2006) collecting a quarter century's work by one of the most elegant and pertinent poets working in English

from the celebratory to the elaboratory

taking the reader on an emotional

Shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2021

Poems in Progress: Drafts from Master Poets Michael Mackmin 2006) collecting a quarter century'sContributors include: Simon Armitage, Kathleen Jamie, Benjamin Zephaniah, Caroline Bird, Hollie McNish, Fiona Benson, Liz Berry, Rebecca Goss, Pascale Petit and many more. Ask two poets what a first draft looks like and youll get wildly different answers. From typed pages with delicate annotation to scribbles in a dog eared notebook, drafts tell us so much more about poems and poets than the published versions ever could. Themed chapters allow for