To His Lost Lover Now they are no longerany trouble to each other he can turn things over, get down … More
Category: Being a Poet
Lifesaving Poems: Sean O’Brien’s ‘Before’
To safe and almost universal silence I published How Far From Here is Home? (Stride) a few days before Christmas in … More
When one poet rescues another poet
I came across Hubert Moore’s fantastic book of poems The Hearing Room (Shoetstring, 2006) via my friend and neighbour Lawrence Sail. In … More
Lifesaving Poems: Yorifumi Yaguchi’s Praying Mantis
Readers who have followed my Lifesaving Poems series will know by now that there isn’t and wasn’t a plan about … More
Why I miss Robert Rehder
It is odd to speak of missing someone you never met, but this is how I feel about the American … More
Chemo reading
I wrote here recently about losing my ambition as a writer. In case readers are in any doubt, the stuff … More
Lifesaving Poems: Billy Collins’s ‘Morning’
In February, 1999 I was sitting in a car park with Naomi Jaffa when she asked me what I … More
On disappearing
I wrote recently about poets who disappear from view, specifically Susannah Amoore, from Faber’s Poetry Introduction 6. My point is far … More
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