On the anniversary of 9/11, and while I am in the city, here is a collection of some of my favourite poems about New York. It is, as ever, an eclectic choice. There are many others that I might have included (Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman, Claude McKay, Elizabeth Bishop, to name but a few) if I had the space, but I decided to restrict myself to seven. There are many that I have forgotten, many more that I simply don’t […]

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