In February, 1999 I was sitting in a car park with Naomi Jaffa when she asked me what I … More
Category: Naomi Jaffa
The Top 20 Lifesaving Poems
I began writing the Lifesaving Poems series of blog posts in May 2010. The idea was to celebrate the poems that I … More
Lifesaving Poems: CK Williams’s ‘Kin’
Kin“You make me sick!” this, with rancor, vehemence, disgust—again, “You hear me? Sick!”with rancor, vehemence, disgust again, with rage and … More
Lifesaving Poems: Naomi Jaffa’s ‘Some of the Usual’
Some of the UsualStanding in the kitchen before breakfast, not including some of the usual —what to buy in Budgens … More
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