An interview with Poetry Spotlight

This is the opening question and answer to an interview with Paul Clyne of Poetry Spotlight, published today. To read … More

Lifesaving Poems: Fleur Adcock’s ‘The Soho Hospital for Women (IV)’

The Soho Hospital for Woman (IV) I am out in the supermarket choosing – this very afternoon, this day … More

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

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

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

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

Cups They know us by our lips. They know the proverb about the space between us. Many slip. They … More

I am at a thing. Canals are there. Sunlight on them, the last tourists, a shifting of the seasons. ‘Soon … More

I have so much to be grateful for in 2014. The year began in one of my temporary fits … More