From the archives: 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

The most popular Lifesaving Poems of 2015

Here is a list of the most-read Lifesaving Poems during 2015: Mary Oliver, The Journey UA Fanthorpe, Atlas Ted Hughes, … More

Here are the most read Lifesaving Poems of 2014. For the first time I have been able to compare last … More

I began writing the Lifesaving Poems posts in May, 2011. Below is a list of the twenty most popular poems … More

I am in the pub with Rupert. We are talking about planning a thing. It’s definitely going to happen. A … More

We had been in the new city for two months. The house we had bought was even more of a … More

Phil Bowen gave me this poem, written by a ten-year-old girl, in 1998 to illustrate a writing game he submitted … More

Sometime In the early Nineties BBC 2 did a very wonderful thing; it showed a film, an hour and a … More