We asked eight poets from this year’s festival for their top tip for writing good poems. The variety of ways in how they approached this, both in terms of the advice they gave and how they gave it, has delighted and impressed us. We’ve been sharing these as they came in over the past couple of months but now we’ve collated them together to share with you here.

Anthony Anaxagorou

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Gerry Cambridge

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Joelle Taylor

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Jen Hadfield

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John Glenday

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Shehzar Doja

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Mhairi Owens

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Deborah Moffatt

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