“What’s this, a Punch and Judy?” inquired one curious bystander as the Worcestershire literature festival’s Martin Driscoll was setting up chairs, mic and amplifiers for the Steam Poets on the concourse at Kidderminster Town station on the Severn Valley Railway.  I explained to him that it wasn’t Punch and Judy, but poetry.

“Dylan Thomas?” he asked, hopefully. I replied, a tad sniffily, that I ...

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