Guest Blog Post: Dear Diary, by Josephine Corcoran

This is the second in a series of Guest Blog Posts that I am hosting this year. More are…

The missing blog post

after and with apologies to Mark Halliday The missing blog post has gone AWOL. Never sure of its place in…

My deep thanks to Maria Taylor, who has written the most lovely appreciation of Lifesaving Poems. Thank you Maria for capturing its…

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward…

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond. Robert…

I have been moving. Not moving house, moving within it. Stuff has come with me, some of it has vanished…

Dear Peter Cover-to-cover and back-to-back twice, as I do, once before sleeping, then between zeds on a train woken to Tickets,…

As I have said before, there wasn’t a plan. Which does not mean I don’t feel the luckiest man alive…

This is the link to the podcast of the interview I gave yesterday on the Arena programme, RTE, about…

The Sofas, Fogs, and Cinemas I have lived it, and lived it, My nervous, luxury civilisation, My sugar-loving nerves have…

A Misremembered Lyric, by Denise Riley I heard this poem for the first time a week ago, at the Bodmin…

Damp white imprints dog the feet; snowbound trolley, snowbound street. Her tip of glove to lip and cheek, “Goodbye.” Go.…

Artwork by Angus Joseph Alongside each poem in Lifesaving Poems is a short commentary about how I came across…

Now that we might finally be getting one, I found myself wondering recently how many of my Lifesaving Poems choices were about…

The central organising principle of Lifesaving Poems is that each poet is represented by a single poem. There are poets you…

This is the first in a series of guest blog posts by writers I admire. Having enjoyed speaking and reading…

Lifesaving Poems has arrived Well, it has finally arrived. The anthology which began life as a blog, which began life as…

I Am Not I I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not…