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Tag: Polly Atkin

An interview with award-winning poet Polly Atkin in Grasmere: ‘When is a cloud lonely in the Lake District?’

7th December 20228th December 2022  Iona Glen

Iona Glen meets award-winning poet, Polly Atkin, to discuss her recent biography Recovering Dorothy, how Dorothy Wordsworth’s illness has been overlooked in academic scholarship, the marginalisation of those with chronic ill health, poems as time machines and much more.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Biography, Dorothy Wordsworth, Grasmere, Interview, Iona Glen, Lake District, Poetry, Polly Atkin, Saraband Books, Seren Books, William Wordsworth

Rain & Moonlight: Weathering with Dorothy Wordsworth and Polly Atkin by Iona Glen

12th April 202213th April 2022  Iona Glen

Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals shine with moonlight and rain-washed landscapes, but did her later illness inhibit such vision? No, writes Iona Glen, who, when considering the poetry and criticism of Polly Atkin, sees Wordsworth’s creativity flourish in her periods of ill health.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Alice Hattrick, Bodies, Dorothy Wordsworth, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Ill Feelings, illness, Iona Glen, My Body's Bodies Editorial, nature writing, non-fiction, Polly Atkin, Seren Books, Susan Sontag, Virginia Woolf
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    By Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
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    By Lisa Goodrum
  • Beyond the Confines of Nell Brookfield’s Canvas
    By Rachel Ashenden
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