Laura McKee

@sarahwebbishere Wonderful book 🥰 much loved by my children. Also Oliver Jeffers - Lost and Found and The Incredible Book Eating Boy.

Laura McKee

“She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other”. Happy Birthday to Carson McCullers, this from The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, genius book that broke my heart.

Laura McKee

Re-sharing this because sometimes you gotsta celebrate yourself 🫶🏻🐨 2 poems by Laura McKee https://t.co/RGxjiv4xxE

Laura McKee

I can’t even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there’s a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. - Frank O’Hara, Meditations in an emergency

Laura McKee

I remember hearing Sharon Olds say when she found herself writing odes she didn't want to look up what an ode is because she was enjoying herself and didn't want to find out she'd got it wrong.🥰

Laura McKee

Nothing can be truly replicated. Not a love, not a jewel, not a single line. - Patti Smith, M Train. (Happy Birthday!)

Laura McKee

I’m really looking forward to the book this is from, I love both Agnes Martin’s art and Victoria Chang’s poems, result! Grass, 1967 https://t.co/GsQnsFBBGg

Laura McKee

What! Sharon Olds has a book called Balladz with a Z and nobody told me?

Laura McKee

@PoetryRough T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Laura McKee

“She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other”. Happy Birthday to Carson McCullers, this from The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, genius book that broke my heart.