Lifesaving Lines: What the Living Do, by Marie Howe

Two great lines for the price of one (it is Christmas, after all) this week, from Marie Howe’s extraordinary poem … More

This was a good week

Third Sunday in Advent Today I pause from giving you updates from grief’s front line and take a leaf from … More

The way I found out, just as with my diagnosis, was via a segment of a conversation about other things. … More

‘Listening to the cricket again?’ says the book. ‘I think I’ll join you.’ ‘What do you mean, ‘again’?’ I say. … More

An event of this magnitude Overshadows the destruction of the Berlin Wall And the troubles in the Caucasus. –Robert Rehder, … More

Now for the other life. The one without mistakes. –Lou Lipsitz A year ago I found myself not looking at … More

I am delighted to have a new poem, To Spring, published today at Sarah James’s blog, in With You In … More

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

I have been thinking a lot recently about Tomas Tranströmer’s poem ‘Alone’. When I first read it I was taken … More