Saying goodbye

I want to congratulate you on passing this course and achieving QTS in this uniquely difficult and strange year. None…

Courage

Courage It is in the small things we see it. The child’s first step, as awesome as an earthquake.…

We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found…

The grief keeps on coming. Though I write from my place of privilege, of safety, it still feels relentless.…

The Layers I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I…

On the Edge After your mother dies, you will learn to live on the edge of life, to brace…

I can’t be alone in experiencing the coronavirus crisis and resulting lockdown as something of an infringement on my…

Young Poets’ Stories project update: Today we add a reading resources for young poets page to the Young Poets’ Stories website.…

Struggling I haven’t had time to stand and fart recently,and you’re wanting me to work on a relationship? That silence…

The Schoolchildren Like leaves startled by a gust of wind they peel away from the tight-knit group, one child, two,…

Simply Lit Often toward evening, after another day, after another year of days, in the half dark on the…

Dying Nothing to be said about it, and everything – The change of changes, closer or further away: The…

Here are some places that I have been visiting recently and derived much comfort from. I hope you enjoy them…

I am delighted to announce that Matthew Stewart of Rogue Strands has written a generous review of The Afterlife, the…

Calling all Winning & Highly Commended Foyle Young Poets 2012 – 2019 If you are a young writer who…

The washing never gets done. The furnace never gets heated. Books never get read. Life is never completed. Life…

Save Us From Save us from night, from bleak open highways without end, and the fluorescent oases of gas stations,…

On #R4Today some of the BBC's best known voices will offer their favourite poems of #comfortandhope. Here @CliveMyrieBBC…