Lifesaving Lines

Thank you to everyone who has commented to me either publicly or in private about my new series of blog … More

Lifesaving Lines: The Gift, by Brendan Kennelly

I was at a thing. Very rarely for me, it was my own thing, only my second in front of … More

I am returning to the pencil. The premise of which remark signifies consciousness that at some point I left the … More

At the start of each academic year, usually when I have known them for a week or so, I make … More

This is the second in a series of Guest Blog Posts that I am hosting this year. More are … More

I have been moving. Not moving house, moving within it. Stuff has come with me, some of it has vanished … More

Locus Scolus: The New York School of Poets is a thing of wonder and beauty. Named after a 1914 French novel by Raymond … More

The Book of Things, Ilhan Berk (Salt, 2009), trs. George Messo Open me anywhere § Slugs Pilot Hi V5, … More

Readers of this blog will know I have been thinking a lot about stationery recently. (Actually, that is something of … More

My blog post yesterday about the stationery thing provoked more responses than I ever imagined it would. Among the … More

At the start of each academic year, usually when I have known them for a week or so, I make … More