Billy Collins is one of the world’s most popular poets . . .
While his poems often begin in the everyday and domestic, fans know that they might end anywhere – and that they will lift their heads from the book to a world startlingly different from the one they had left moments before.
‘Billy Collins is one of my favourite poets in the world’ Carol Ann Duffy
Gray’s Anomaly
For years, then, I skipped modern poetry – until I discovered Billy Collins. Cue thunder and lightning! Now I’d walk backwards across town in a blizzard to buy the latest book of Billy...
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