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Richard is a novel that is firmly rooted in the indie and alternative music scenes of the 1980s and early 1990s. To accompany it I have been asked to compile a selection of music heard in scenes throughout the book, or which could perhaps could be played while reading the book.

 

The poems were written over a period of about five years. I listened to lots of music and we moved to a house in the middle of nowhere. I think you can tell that from reading the poems. But that's enough about me.

 

Katharine Towers shares some of the ideas behind a poem from her collection The Floating Man.

 

Poet Annie Freud on the inspiration found in her mother's letters...

 

Annie Freud tells us about the inspiration behind a poem from her second collection, The Mirabelles.