52: Write a poem a week. Start now. Keep GoingThe 52 project started with a simple idea: Write a poem a week. Start now. Keep going. It became a phenomenon. Hundreds of poets took up the challenge and their poems swept the board of poetry prizes, publications and personal successes. This book brings together the 52 prompts written by poet Jo Bell and by guest poets ranging from David Morley to Rachael Boast, so that you can pick up the challenge yourself. With contemporary poems to illustrate

accomplished an incredible feat when he scored four tries in the four-Test series and earned the undying admiration of the Republic’s political prisoners

was awarded both the Pellegrino and Viareggio prizes

Kathryn Simmonds’ first book of poems

the tides’ inheritance of worms

He obtained his doctorate at the University of Warwick and currently teaches on the Caribbean Studies programme at the University of North London

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Ceri Lloyd

She edits The National Poetry Review and Press and works as a Realtor in Santa Cruz and surrounding counties

He has published numerous books

Macdara WoodsM was born in Dublin in 1942 and has published a number of collections with the Dedalus Press including his Selected Poems (1996)

past and present

and tonal dexterity