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Ver Poets 6oth Anniversary Anthology: A Staircase in Mid-Air
£12 including post and packaging.
To celebrate their 60th anniversary in 2026, Ver Poets have published an anthology of poems by members new and old from across the country. It includes both established poets with collections of their own and others who have started writing only recently. There are also contributions from each of the highly respected poets who have judged the Ver Poets Open Competition over the last ten years.
"Versatile and vibrant, commemorating the wonder of poetry, here is a selection of poems that offers good company whatever mood you are in. I applaud the editors of A Staircase in Mid-Air for such a fine achievement." Shanta Acharya
“For those eager to experience the vigour of contemporary poetry, this collection of writing by members of Ver Poets and more famous names, who have acted as judges of the group’s annual competition over the last ten years, is recommended reading. Each poem arrives exactly as good fortune is said to arrive in Jacqueline Saphra’s poem ‘Mazel’: ‘chancing in / with your smile on show’.” Martyn Crucefix
“The poems in this anthology are sensitively grouped to create an inviting pathway of contrasts and affinities. Bountiful clusters, dark inky treasure – the poetic voices and moods, the illuminating ideas and evocations to be discovered in these pages.” Jane Duran
“Sixty years is nothing in the realm of poetry and even less in St Albans, where you can still hear the echoes of homesick Romans reciting Horace and Virgil. But this sexagennial celebration of the modern city’s Ver Poets is really quite something. A mosaic of new pieces by poets familiar and unfamiliar, always readable, frequently surprising – prepare to be conquered!” John Greening
“For sixty years, Ver Poets has united writers in a shared commitment to creativity. A Staircase in Mid-Air is a celebration of that legacy. Taking its title from Kathryn Maris’s striking image, this anthology embraces the art of poetry as a vibrant, curious, ongoing journey. It offers moments of stunning insight, flashes of surprise and delightful invention.” Vanessa Lampert
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