Dai George is a poet, novelist, critic and academic. His first poetry collection, The Claims Office, was an Evening Standard book of the year and his second, titled Karaoke King, was published by Seren in June 2021. His first novel, The Counterplot, was published as an Audible Original in 2019, and he is currently working on his second. He is the former reviews editor of Poetry London and has taught poetry and creative writing for many years at various universities. He is currently Lecturer in Creative Arts and Humantieis at UCL.

His poetry has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Review, Poetry Wales and Islands Are But Mountains: New Poetry from the United Kingdom. His criticism and non-fiction features in popular and academic forums including the Guardian, The White Review, and Cambridge Quarterly.

Alongside Sarah Howe and Vidyan Ravinthiran, George was a founding editor of the online poetry journal Prac Crit, which drew a large global readership across its five-year lifespan.

Introduction
1 How to Think Like Homer
2 How to Think Like Sappho
3 How to Think Like Li Bai
4 How to Think Like Jalal al-Din Rumi
5 How to Think Like Dante Alighieri
6 How to Think Like Geoffrey Chaucer
7 How to Think Like William Shakespeare
8 How to Think Like John Donne
9 How to Think Like John Milton
10 How to Think Like Matsuo Basho
11 How to Think Like William Wordsworth
12 How to Think Like Walt Whitman
13 How to Think Like Emily Dickinson
14 How to Think Like Rabindranath Tagore
15 How to Think Like T. S. Eliot
16 How to Think Like Langston Hughes
17 How to Think Like Pablo Neruda
18 How to Think Like Elizabeth Bishop
19 How to Think Like Aimé Césaire
20 How to Think Like Dylan Thomas
21 How to Think Like Frank O'Hara
22 How to Think Like Sylvia Plath
23 How to Think Like Audre Lorde
24 How to Think Like a Contemporary Poet
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