POETS, PLEASE

Esther Phillips reads at the Soutbank Centre, London, 2013.

Readers, writers and performers for Bim LitFest 2014 on books that grab them, favourite authors, and showing words love...

“I cannot say that I have a favourite book. My favourite writers are poets: Derek Walcott, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, and Seamus Heaney.

“Certainly, The Road Less Travelled by Scott Peck made a lasting impression on me. I was really searching for answers at the time I read it, and the book seemed to unravel some issues for me: the idea of purpose and of a hidden wisdom in the universe. Those thoughts helped to keep me focused.”

• Esther Phillips is a poet, retired educator, and the director of the Bim LitFest.