August Kleinzahler at the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize

August Kleinzahler, 2004 International Griffin Poetry Prize Winner, Opens the 2005 Awards Ceremony My reader is immune to fashion or … More

Lifesaving Poems: Thomas Lux’s ‘An Horatian Notion’

Photo Credit: Tatiana Wilson You make the thing because you love the thing and you love the thing because someone … More

Norman MacCaig’s ‘Aunt Julia’ was the first poem I remember reading which made me think ‘I need to do this’. … More

Last week I read Antony Dunn‘s marvellous essay about his poetics, ‘To Tell You the Truth’ (from In Their Own … More

I began writing the Lifesaving Poems series of blog posts in May 2010. The idea was to celebrate the poems that I … More

I came across ‘Elegy for Jane’ having found poems by Theodore Roethke in Ted Hughes’ classic anthology of poems and … More

As I say in my full length review of Jo Shapcott’s Of Mutability, really good books about cancer are rare. Really … More

I first came across ‘Sunday Lunchtime’ in a copy of Sunk Island Review, edited by Michael Blackburn. You can find … More

I have written before that there are a wide range of reasons for including the poems I have in my … More

I began writing the Lifesaving Poems series of blog posts in May 2010. The idea was to celebrate the poems … More

I was thinking recently about John Ashbery. As I say in my post about my poetry highlights of 2012 one of … More

I have just been asked by Abegail Morley to send her a list of my poetry books of 2012 for … More

I fell in love with the poetry of Mark Strand via the enthusiasm of Rupert Loydell sometime in the late … More

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted … More

In the spring of 1999 I got the best education in poetry I have ever had. I was in Suffolk, … More

Yesterday was a good day and a sad say. A good day because Smiths Knoll, the poetry magazine edited by … More

I first read ‘Prosser’ in the bookshop in Northwood, where I grew up, on my way into work and back … More

Isn’t Twitter a marvellous thing? Following a link on a tweet of Jeanne Duperreault last week I came across the Canadian Poetry Online … More