Spent the day with the students of South Downs College, who are studying my last collection for their English Language/Literature A’ Level. That’s some pretty serious annotation of poems! And it’s still a bit of a trip to see people studying the work so intently. We spoke about identity, culture, hip-hop, finding spaces we can belong to, developing a career as a writer and Bruce Lee (in the context of mastering one craft before attempting to engage another with reference to writing acro...
