![]() ![]() Other highlights of the library include a new biography of Keats, Damian Barr’s Maggie & Me and Baudelaire’s letters (though the latter comes across as an egotistical whinger)! Surely not all poets are like that. Although it’s mainly known for its theological collections, the history, politics, contemporary fiction and poetry collections are great. ![]() ![]() I can’t praise the peace and atmosphere in the Library enough. I’d never really got to grips with Thomas before (maybe meeting so many vicars over the past two weeks lead me to Thomas’s long poem ‘The Minister’ I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it). ![]() I began with the library’s Suffragette literature (I’d recommend The Militant Suffragettes by Antonia Raeburn), and then numerous poetry collections, including work by Eavan Boland (In a Time of Violence is wonderful), John Burnside, Gillian Clarke, T.S. I’d decided in advance to take a break from the internet during my stay and to read whatever took my fancy in the library. I arrived with some rather vague ideas about my great-nan who used to go to the Women’s Social and Political Union meetings and I’m heading home with a sequence of 13 Suffragette poems and a suntan! I’ve also edited and completed five other poems, written two more and managed to draft a chapter of my PhD. It’s my last day here as writer-in-residence and I’m wondering how I’m going to slip back in to doing my own shopping, cooking and washing up. By Gladstones Library | Tuesday, 18th June 2013 ![]()
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