I had bumped into a friend at the cash machine. We greeted each other, as we always do, with a … More
Category: Robert Pinsky
A bright soul keeps on beating
Dying Nothing to be said about it, and everything – The change of changes, closer or further away: The … More
A need to answer, by Robert Pinsky
An artist needs not so much an audience as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond. … More
The Other Writer
I think I need the Other Writer much more than they need me. Off the top of my head I … More
What you read in 2015
This blog would be nothing without its readers. Thank you to everyone who stopped by, made a comment or a … More
A day he won’t have
I had bumped into a friend at the cash machine. We greeted each other, as we always do, with a … More
Inside Lifesaving Poems 5
An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond. Robert … More
Why it’s called Love for Now
Love for Now did not begin with an idea but an illness. As I have written elsewhere, there wasn’t a plan. I … More
Lifesaving Poems: Deryn Rees-Jones’s ‘What It’s Like To Be Alive’
Last week I read Antony Dunn‘s marvellous essay about his poetics, ‘To Tell You the Truth’ (from In Their Own … More
The Next Big Thing: some questions about Love for Now
The Next Big Thing I have been been tagged by poet and blogger Abegail Morley to answer set questions relating to my memoir … More
Lifesaving Poems: Robert Pinsky’s ‘Song of Reasons’
It is nearly twenty years since I bought Peter Sansom’s Writing Poems. Among that wonderful book’s many delights I found … More