As the holiday season continues I repost this list of various found poems that I have made over the … More
Category: Poets
Happy James Schuyler Day
To celebrate what I now think of as James Schuyler day, I am reposting June 30, 1974. Happy … More
Open letter to James Schuyler
Dear James (may I call you James?) Though it’s been a while (at least ten years, maybe more) it feels as … More
Jean Sprackland’s ‘The Birkdale Nightingale’ (LentBlog40)
For the final Saturday in Lent, and the final post of this LentBlog series, I have great pleasure in reposting … More
Rose Cook’s ‘A Poem for Someone Who is Juggling Her Life’ (LentBlog34)
This being a Saturday in Lent, I am reblogging a favourite post from my archives. Here is one of … More
Naomi Jaffa’s ‘Some of the Usual’ (LentBlog28)
Today is Saturday, and as with other Saturdays this Lent I am reposting a favourite blog post from my archive. … More
Why we need to save the Poetry Business (LentBlog26)
after Mark Halliday Because of the writing days. And because The discovery will not happen on its own, unprompted, … More
Denise Levertov’s ‘The Secret’ (LentBlog22)
This is a Saturday in Lent, so I am reposting a favourite older post from my archives. See you on … More
Mandy Coe’s ‘Let’s Celebrate’ (LentBlog16)
This being a Saturday in Lent, I am reposting a favourite blog post from my archives. See you after the … More
Ann Sansom’s ‘Instructor’ (LentBlog10)
Ann Sansom is one of my all-time favourite people, poets or normal, ever. I count myself fortunate to have worked … More
Lifesaving Poems: Philip Larkin’s ‘Going’
Going There is an evening coming in Across the fields, one never seen before, That lights no lamps. Silken … More
What you read in 2018
Here are my most frequently-read blog posts of 2018, according to my WordPress stats. First, from the Lifesaving Poems … More
The Year of Living Deeply 13: Reading the books I already possess
As I was saying the book that I bought and then did not read and which caught my eye recently is Now … More
The Year of Living Deeply 12: Reading the books I already have
So in an effort to live deeply and not widely, amongst other things I have been looking at the shelves … More
The Year of Living Deepy 2: Re-reading Tomas Tranströmer
Below Zero We are at a party that doesn’t love us. At last the party lets its mask drop and … More
Lifesaving Poems: Stuart Pickford’s ‘The Curtain Falls’
The Curtain Falls Suddenly a life is over – Ends with such serious charades The Dean makes lame quips … More
Towards a model of poetry writing development
As promised last week, here is my presentation of the paper I co-wrote with Sue Dymoke in which we argue on … More
Poetry writing as a socially mediated process
‘Even the poetic world is social’ (Bakhtin, 1981, 300). This time next week, Saturday 23 June, I will be presenting … More
Lifesaving Poems: Carrie Fountain’s ‘Poem Without Sleep’
Poem Without Sleep All the things that could happen to the baby came to me last night as I … More
Nowhere Poet
It is odd to speak of missing someone you never met, but this is how I feel about the … More
