Poems in Progress: Drafts from Master Poets Valley Press is a poet in the

is a poet in the tradition of the war poets who take a stand against war based on their own wartime experiences

The rich landscape of wild imagination and wild play is rapidly fading from our children's minds

She is uniquely a 'prophetic' poet

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Poems in Progress: Drafts from Master Poets Valley Press is a poet in theContributors 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