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Sam Leith

Sam Leith is the literary editor of The Spectator, a columnist for the Evening Standard and author of You Talkin’ to Me?

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Sam Leith's lockdown reads

Sam Leith’s lockdown reads

Some of the selections here might have the effect, as well as whiling away the hours, of making us…

Why are we so averse to verse?

Why are we so averse to verse?

Why does poetry seldom, if ever, aspire to be part of a national conversation, asks Sam Leith I’ve been…