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I have published a new poem in the style of Kenneth Koch, On Twitter, at Ink Sweat & Tears. Whether…

August Kleinzahler at the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize

August Kleinzahler, 2004 International Griffin Poetry Prize Winner, Opens the 2005 Awards Ceremony My reader is immune to fashion or…

Photo Credit: Tatiana Wilson You make the thing because you love the thing and you love the thing because someone…

Norman MacCaig’s ‘Aunt Julia’ was the first poem I remember reading which made me think ‘I need to do this’. …

I have said before that one of the most useful things I have done in my life was to be…

Last week I read Antony Dunn‘s marvellous essay about his poetics, ‘To Tell You the Truth’ (from In Their Own…

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

I came across ‘Elegy for Jane’ having found poems by Theodore Roethke in Ted Hughes’ classic anthology of poems and…

Today is the seventh anniversary of my diagnosis with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL), an aggressive cancer of the lymphatic system. I…

As I say in my full length review of Jo Shapcott’s Of Mutability, really good books about cancer are rare. Really…

I first came across ‘Sunday Lunchtime’ in a copy of Sunk Island Review, edited by Michael Blackburn. You can find…

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

I have written before that there are a wide range of reasons for including the poems I have in my…

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

The Next Big Thing I have been been tagged by poet and blogger Abegail Morley to answer set questions relating to my memoir…

When I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma nearly seven years ago the aspect of telling people I dreaded most was…

I was thinking recently about John Ashbery. As I say in my post about my poetry highlights of 2012 one of…

The chances are, more of us are mortal than have multiple orgasms -Violet Weingarten, Intimations of Mortality When I was diagnosed…