Liz Bassett poems at wordhappening

Saturday, April 16, 2011

I just had to post this interview with Kay Ryan. Rarely have I heard someone talking about poetry and its process in such an elegant and compelling way.

: Name: Liz Bassett; Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom

Liz Bassett writes poems about skies and elephants and the occasional ship. In her poems people fall asleep under their duvet and wake up under lines of migrating geese, and in love. Her poems have been placed in the Bridport competition, short listed for the Plough Prize, and been published by The Red Wheelbarrow, Agenda Broadsheet, White Leaf Review, The Guardian Poetry Workshop, and in the anthologies My Mother Threw Knives (Second Light Publications), Solitaire (Templar Poetry)and New Poets from Britain and America (White Leaf Press). She is a reviewer for Sphinx (HappenStance Press). Her pamphlet 'How to Wire a Life for Love' is available from Knucker Press.

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