(After all, Collins fans know a poem doesn ... "In many of these poems, quite frankly, there's a game being played, which the reader can play also," he said. "You can write a contra-poem to ...

None of these poetry games, though, are adaptations ... about which we are simultaneously apologetic and boastful (plums, like all juicy fruit, being symbolically linked to forbidden knowledge ...

This week, let’s all learn one together ... There will be new games and videos every day, until we disembark on Friday, poem in hand. Bon voyage! Tap a word above to fill in the highlighted ...

The poems were often accompanied by diary fragments ... where they were never encouraged to belong. As though it were all just a game, meant to be gamed. As though it all came down to a name ...