The most immediate and forthright analysis of a poem I have seen at any poetry workshop occurred as I passed … More
Category: New Generation Poets
Lifesaving Poems: Don Paterson’s ‘Heliographer’
W.H. Auden once said that writers should always be honest, even about their prejudices. So here is my confession: when … More
Lifesaving Poems: Simon Armitage’s ‘To His Lost Lover’
Sometime In the early Nineties BBC 2 did a very wonderful thing; it showed a film, an hour and a … More
