Lifesaving Poems: Sharon Olds’s ‘Looking at Them Asleep’

Continuing in this mini-series of poems I shared in my reading at the Greenbelt festival last weekend, here is Looking … More

Guest Blog Post: Don’t Think About A White Horse, by Kate Bowles

Don’t Think About A White Horse Coming closer, he turns out to be you – or nearly. Once you … More

The Collection The Matter of This World: New and Selected Poems (Slow Dancer, 1987) I found The Matter of … More

During the Christmas period I am reposting some old posts from my archive. Wishing all my readers a very happy … More

I want to live – Sharon Olds The most intense reading group I ever belonged to wasn’t really a reading … More

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

Seven years ago today, the date in the photograph above was the day I knew had cancer. By this … More

I found this poem in a collection of poems called The Matter of This World in a second hand … More