Many of Fanthorpes poems look at the familiar or known from a different or unusual point of view. Discuss what you have found enjoyable in a selection of poems.

In the poems selected, "Hang-gliders in January", "Horticultural show" and "Soothing and awful", Fanthorpe does not perhaps always approach the familiar from an unusual angle but spots the pathos of the commonplace where we had not previously looked for it. She has an extraordinary quality of taking something seemingly trivial and developing thoughts and ideas about it that others may have previously considered but dismissed without developing. The title of the first poem to be …

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