One of my personal, private highlights of last year’s Aldeburgh Poetry Festival was a Sunday morning breakfast hosted by The … More
Tag: An Horatian Notion
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
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
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