Poet Paul Cookson orders you to unzip your lips and get poetry off the page and into the air
One of my favourite poets, John Cooper Clarke, once said something to the effect that “if a poem doesn’t sound good when it’s read out loud then it’s probably not a very good poem”. I’d agree with that.
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