Andrew Jamison

Read Andrew Jamison's keynote poetry lecture, originally delivered at the University of Reading on Monday 20th October 2025. Subscribe to my blog here and join almost 200 others who get my weekly newsletter every Monday morning. What is a Poem?   Lecture to Third Year Undergraduates University of Reading 20 th  October 2025     1.     A piece of writing or an oral composition, often characterized by a metrical structure, in which the expression of feelings, ideas, etc., is t