Tag: DRAKE

• Behind the scenes at a bookshop residency…

  

  Stockton was buzzing, or maybe growling, about Home Secretary James Cleverley MP, and his very public comment about Stockton being a sh*thole.

  Kirsten Luckins

  January 23, 2024

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• Rebellious joy!

  

  Caroline Walling, the Curious Ink-Smith, is about to be the very first TWP poet-in-residence at DRAKE the Bookshop, so we thought we’d ask her what’s it’s all about and how people can get involved… What does a bookshop poet-in-residence do? I wasn’t entirely sure at first, but I had a LOT of ideas about things…

  Kirsten Luckins

  November 15, 2023

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