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On History and Poems

In John McCullough's new course with The Poetry School, he will be looking at how the distant past offers poets the opportunity to surprise readers with a range of vanished imagery and ideas, weird stories and lost words. Here, he talks about his personal interest in History, the unrecorded narratives of ordinary people and they myth of the past.