Rachel Piercey and Richard O’Brien at the Keen Bean
The Keen Bean, a tiny coffee shop in Oxford run by poet and entrepreneur Will Davies, has just started a series of free poetry nights to promote small and independent publishers. Will was kind enough to invite me to curate
Six Good Homes for The Flower and the Plough
Turns out it's hard to get a book by an unknown author from an unknown publisher into bookshops, and it doesn't help if the author's a poet and the book doesn't have a spine. I didn't expect booksellers to be
