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National Poetry Day
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- 1Poets mark end of September ahead of National Poetry Day●And thus ends September, And Summer's last ember Still flickers & glows, The colour of an autumn leaf, As the river of S
Readers and booksellers are sharing seasonal verse to close out September, with one Edinburgh bookshop posting a short autumn poem about summer's last ember flowing 'into the Firth of Time'. The exchange is tied to National Poetry Day, which falls the next day, prompting people to swap their favourite poems and celebrate the changing of the seasons in verse.