Guest posts and summer reading

As I did last year, I will be taking a break from uploading new posts to this blog over August. … More

Inside Lifesaving Poems

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

because of the words and because of the books because of the woman in the anorak at the swimming baths … More

Here are the most read Lifesaving Poems of 2014. For the first time I have been able to compare last … More

In preparation for this year’s Aldeburgh Poetry Festival I was asked some questions about my blogging by Festival programmer Dean … More

Below is a collection of my blog posts for the 2014 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. I will update it as I … More

Someone who knows me very well knocked me sideways with a comment the other day. Remarking on this blog, … More

I began writing the Lifesaving Poems posts in May, 2011. Below is a list of the twenty most popular poems … More

Locus Scolus: The New York School of Poets is a thing of wonder and beauty. Named after a 1914 French novel by Raymond … More

Here are some more of my favourite blogs to read. I have put these together (I love them all) because … More

When Ezra Pound claimed that ‘Poetry is news that stays news’ it is likely he was thinking of Katy Evans-Bush’s Baroque … More

I was asked the other day which poetry blogs I read. Over the next few posts I will be sharing … More