First collections and poetic "careers"

Revisiting "The Forward book of poetry, 2000"

We recently packed up our London home for sale, but before it all went into storage I pulled out a few things and brought them with me. The most random was probably The Forward Book of Poetry 2000, which I see was a present from my parents at Christmas 1999. This is a modest paperback anthology of a selection of poems in four categories: two poems from …