An Horatian Notion The thing gets made, gets built, and you’re the slave who rolls the log beneath the block, … More
Category: Thomas Lux
Team Wordsworth
‘It’s even true of Ted Hughes.’ I look across at the book, whose head is now slumped on my desk, … More
Another look at Lux’s ‘An Horatian Notion’
One of my personal, private highlights of last year’s Aldeburgh Poetry Festival was a Sunday morning breakfast hosted by The … More
Poetry highlights of 2014
I have so much to be grateful for in 2014. The year began in one of my temporary fits … More
Mostly all the time nearly everything
Everyone who enters the stage begins by saying thank you * That silence * Mostly nearly all the time * … More
Poetry and tennis
On the Sunday morning of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival I breakfasted with poets discussing the theme of writing poetry and … More
Poetry and disobedience
Early on Saturday morning of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival (Tom Pickard threatened not to get up in time) Robert Seatter … More
On generosity
By the time you read this I will be far away from here. It has not happened yet, but I … More
The soldier, the cauliflower, the walking, the monkey and the man’s bottom
Sitting over toast and marmalade with Peter Sansom yesterday morning he said to me: ‘I don’t bother with novels any … More
Dusk
Reading Thomas Lux’s magnificent new Selected Poems reminded me recently that I first heard his poems before I read them. One of … More
Thomas Lux’s syntax
I first heard Thomas Lux’s poems before I read them. In the autumn of 2000 I was sent a tape … More
The People of the Other Village, by Thomas Lux
One of the poets I am most looking forward to listening to at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in November is … More
Holidays, not term time
Never having succeeded at school, I’ve always thought of poetry as the holidays, not term time. Hugo Williams In November … More
Just one thing
It all started with two remarks, one by a friend, the other by a stranger at work. ß The friend’s … More
New Year Letter
Dear Anthony (I will never get used to calling you Tony) Here are some words of advice from your nearing-fifty-year-old … More
Lifesaving Poems: Yorifumi Yaguchi’s Praying Mantis
Readers who have followed my Lifesaving Poems series will know by now that there isn’t and wasn’t a plan about … More
Lifesaving Poems: Thomas Lux’s ‘An Horatian Notion’
Photo Credit: Tatiana Wilson You make the thing because you love the thing and you love the thing because someone … 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
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