State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation poetry He has been published in

He has been published in national and international poetry journals

and the forms and voices of the poems reflect this propensity

McDermott’s poems root themselves firmly in the coastal landscapes of North Norfolk with a vivid and radical dialogue between nature

whose fluent style resembles Neruda’s well-known odes

State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation poetry He has been published inHow do we think of ourselves as poets? How does our race, our home(s), and our cultural heritage, shape our sense of belonging, our ways of seeing or experiencing the world? How can we learn from and offer support to each other? State of Play brings together conversations between an international line up of poets, taking place over the course of a year, to offer rich insights into these questions and the ways a life lived in many places can invigorate