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Poetry highlights of 2014
I have so much to be grateful for in 2014. The year began in one of my temporary fits…
The most read Lifesaving Poems of 2014
Here are the most read Lifesaving Poems of 2014. For the first time I have been able to compare last…
Lifesaving Poems: Catherine Smith’s ‘How It All Started’
During the Christmas period I am reposting some old posts from my archive. Wishing all my readers a very happy…
Lifesaving Poems: Kath Mckay’s ‘Father’s Day 1970’
During the Christmas period I am reposting some old posts from my archive. Wishing all my readers a very…
Lifesaving Poems: Helen Dunmore’s ‘In the Desert Knowing Nothing’
During the Christmas period I am reposting some old posts from my archive. Wishing all my readers a very happy…
Lifesaving Poems: Margaret Avison’s ‘Twilight’
During the Christmas period I am reposting some old posts from my archive. Wishing all my readers a very happy…
I have read nothing for months
During the Christmas period I am reposting some old posts from my archive. Wishing all my readers a very happy…
This was just a crow
During the Christmas period I am reposting some old posts from my archive. Wishing all my readers a very happy…
A note from Seamus Heaney
During the Christmas period I am reposting some old posts from my archive. Wishing all my readers a very happy…
Heaney’s pedagogy
During the Christmas period I am reposting some old posts from my archive. Wishing all my readers a very happy…
Standing up to cancer?
I am not completely stupid. I know celebrity culture is here to stay. As my children frequently remind me, ‘It…
Why we need Aldeburgh
Dan O’Brien began by saying he wasn’t really a poet, but a ‘moonlighting playwright’. Selima Hill took out her glasses,…
Truce
Here is my Christmas poem for 2014. In this anniversary year of the First World War, it commemorates the unofficial…
Going Against the Flow: Ted Wragg’s last interview
I have been thinking a lot this week about the late Ted Wragg. When I joined the University of Exeter…
‘When I read poetry’: in memory of Mark Strand
I am sad because the great American poet Mark Strand has died. Among the tributes to him in the last…
The Four of Us (a new poem)
I am delighted to have The Four of Us, a new poem, in London Grip New Poetry, which you can find…
The woman at the workshop
I am at a thing. Not a famous thing, but an important one nevertheless. People are there, people you and…
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