John Clegg
Senior Bookseller and Poetry section curator
John navigates the Bookshop’s poetry section like a seasoned mariner. He’s also a poet in his own right: his second collection, Holy Toledo!, is published by Carcanet.
Ask John about: poetry, natural history, crime, his personal rankings of Mr Kipling cakes.
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Ask John about: poetry, natural history, crime, his personal rankings of Mr Kipling cakes
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Ask David about: everything, but particularly natural history, politics and economics, history, philosophy, crime, poetry
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Ask John about: poetry, natural history, crime, his personal rankings of Mr Kipling cakes
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Ask David about: everything, but particularly natural history, politics and economics, history, philosophy, crime, poetry
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Ask Charlie about: music, biography, history, cultural studies, theatre, dance
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Ask Claire about: art, fiction, graphic novels, what’s coming up in the events calendar, hiring the shop
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Ask Natalia about: fiction, children’s, photography and feminist studies
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Ask Gayle about: fiction, cookbooks, children’s books, photography, and graphic novels
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Ask David about: everything, but particularly natural history, politics and economics, history, philosophy, crime, poetry
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Ask Charlie about: music, biography, history, cultural studies, theatre, dance
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Ask Claire about: art, fiction, graphic novels, what’s coming up in the events calendar, hiring the shop
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Ask Natalia about: fiction, children’s, photography and feminist studies
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Ask Gayle about: fiction, cookbooks, children’s books, photography, and graphic novels
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Ask John about: poetry, natural history, crime, his personal rankings of Mr Kipling cakes