Some poems bristle with intensity, where the compression of language combines with an edginess of content to produce a powerful piece of writing that may be difficult to study, as it weighs on the reader. Liz Poyser, of Southport, Merseyside, was moved to write such a poem following an emergency admission to hospital. She describes it as ‘such a busy place, but so lonely’ and says that the writing was rooted in fear and loneliness.
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