To safe and almost universal silence I published How Far From Here is Home? (Stride) a few days before Christmas in … More
Category: Rupert Loydell
In Praise of Rupert
Rupert Loydell is shouting at the countryside. I have got up at sparrow-fart to drive him to the Blandford … More
#NaBloPoMo 6 – The Ottowa Poetry Newsletter
My friend Rupert Loydell has emailed me a list of blog posts curated by Rob Mclennan on writing at the … More
A curry with Matthew Sweeney
I am in the pub with Rupert. We are talking about planning a thing. It’s definitely going to happen. A … More
How poets work
We had been in the new city for two months. The house we had bought was even more of a … More
Lifesaving Poems: Evangeline Paterson’s ‘Literary Portrait’
I met Evangeline Paterson once, in the early Nineties, at a workshop in London. Rupert Loydell suggested I went as … More
Lifesaving Poems: Sean O’Brien’s ‘Before’
To safe and almost universal silence I published How Far From Here is Home? (Stride) a few days before Christmas in … More
Lawrence Sail’s love
I first met Lawrence Sail at a private view at a gallery just outside Exeter. My family and 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