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You look up from a draft of your latest poem, and out at towering trees ... stories that we feel that we have not heard enough of." Sundress Publications − which celebrates its 25th anniversary ...

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Many are never reviewed. There are various reasons for this. One is that not enough poetry is taught in schools, and many teachers at all levels of education lack confidence in teaching poetry.