From the “worst road in Britain”, the “Essex/Suffolk artery” of the A12, to Leicester’s Golden Mile via a Lincolnshire sausage, a host of poets have adopted the voices of local landmarks in order to mark Thursday’s National Poetry Day. “When you hear a poem about a place, that place changes: poetry puts it on the imagination’s map. “National Poetry Day’s collaboration with the BBC local poets makes the whole nation look at itself in a different way: we hope it inspires countless local acts of celebration. “That’s why we’re inviting all with anything important to say today, to say it with a poem. By enjoying, discovering or sharing a poem – words that draw attention to themselves – you change the nature of the national conversation.”

Source: The Guardian October 06, 2016 06:00 UTC