Wenlock Poetry Festival 2014: In Review

Ten of the best soundbites

[quote]As an atheist, my wife is the closest thing in my life to a deity… an angry and vengeful god, but a god nonetheless. — Luke Wright [/quote] [quote]Shed Seven remind me I’m going to die. — Luke Wright [/quote] [quote]A vote for UKIP is a protest vote… A protest against common sense and equality. — Luke Wright[/quote] [quote][The Foyle Young Poets Award is] a form of great resistance… a shadow educational system, a shadow university. — David Morley[/quote] [quote]I think you can only really write poems about being happy in love if the other person’s asleep. — Glyn Maxwell[/quote] [quote]Poets… write secular hymns or prayers… My poetry’s more religious than I am, as if the poems somehow know something that I don’t — Glyn Maxwell[/quote] [quote]What other people think of me when I’m lying on my deathbed really won’t matter that much. — Frieda Hughes[/quote] [quote]To me, [the Ramayana] is becoming more and more of an English story. I wanted to reflect that sensibility. — Daljit Nagra[/quote] [quote]When I was growing up, cider was just a drink for tramps and shepherds. It seems to have been rebranded. — Simon Armitage[/quote] [quote]About once a month, I try to write about something that is absolutely insignificant. — Simon Armitage[/quote]