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Vasilisa at the hut of Baba Yaga by Ivan Bilibin My new poetry collection Something In Nothing includes this endpiece: Something In Nothing uses fairy tales as a means of talking about dark matters in a safe way. This is after all what fairytales have always done – stories about not taking sweets (or gingerbread) from strangers, about child neglect and worse. I grew up on fairy tales, having worked my way through all Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books in my local library and watched

Anna Saunders and I will be reading at Riff Corner in Clevedon on Monday. Details in photo.

Anna Saunders and I both spend a lot of time giving opportunities for poets to read their work, whether online or at the in-Cheltenham...