Late January notebook

[…] you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don’t you are … More

Don’t clap

I once heard Andrew Motion give a poetry reading at a day-conference for teachers, writers and writers in education. There … More

Some time ago I wrote about the importance to me of discovering, through my friend Duncan Kramer, the anthology The … More

Some of my favourite poetry books of all time are anthologies. Not the headline selections everybody has (and has to … More

Andrew Motion is my hero because he set up the Poetry Archive with Richard Carrington. He has nothing left to prove. As … More