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Tag: Being a Poet

James Schuyler: Centenary year celebrations

Open call for guest blog posts celebrating the life and work of James Schuyler This November, we celebrate the centenary … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, James Schuyler, Life Lessons, New York Poets, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Writing, Writing Poems

On having allies

I once heard a senior British poet warming to a riff during a reading on the topic of the acknowledgements … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Blogging, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Writing, Writing Poems

Advent meditation 3

This time last year, I had begun a third period waiting for a response to a new manuscript of poems. … More

Advent, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Funboy Three, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, putting a collection together, Terry Hall, Waiting, Writing, Writing Poems

The Wind and the Rain – due in June 2023

I’m delighted to announce that The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, will be published with Blue … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Blue Diode Publishing, Climate Change Grief, Grief, Poems, Poetry, Poets, The Wind and the Rain, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems

Not much

What’s been happening? Well, not much. Which is another, deflecting, way of saying quite a lot, actually. So much that … More

Adam Zagajewski, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Coral Bracho, Ellen Bass, Life Lessons, Max Richter, Paul Hlava Ceballos, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Sarah Maguire, Shawna Lemay, Writing, Writing Poems

Lifesaving Lines: The Job of Paradise, by Roger Robinson

My personal poetry highlight of the summer was listening to Roger Robinson read and be in conversation with Pádraig Ó … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Benjamin Zander, Bernadine Evaristo, Greenbelt, Kwame Dawes, Lifesaving Lines, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Roger Robinson

Lifesaving Lines: History, by Tomaž Å alamun

The other day I bumped into Tomaž Å alamun. I was enjoying the last few hours of walking around Ljubljana, took … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, History, Lifesaving Lines, Ljubljana, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Tomaž Šalamun

A new review of Lifesaving Poems… from 2015

A huge shout out and massive thank you to Maria Taylor and her wonderful Commonplace blog, where yesterday I discovered … More

Being a Poet, Bloodaxe Books, Bloodaxe Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poems, Maria Taylor, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry

Lifesaving Lines: “Still Do I Keep My Look, My Identity…”, by Gwendolyn Brooks

It was the dying of the light of my time on Twitter. Days when I miss it, I think of … More

Being a Poet, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Still Do I Keep My Looks

Lifesaving Lines: An October Salmon, by Ted Hughes

I walked into the middle of a Ted Hughes poem the other week. An early morning dog walk, like any … More

An October Salmon, Being a Poet, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Ted Hughes

Lifesaving Lines: The Trees, by Philip Larkin

Early May. Sitting in the bay window upstairs at Cricklewood revising for finals. My pink vest and purple jeans phase. … More

Being a Poet, Being a Student, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Lines, philip larkin, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, The Trees, Virginia Woolf

More places of hope

I said here a couple of years ago that Natalie Jabbar’s blog of curated poems each April is like a … More

Anti-Refugee Bill, Being a Poet, Hubert Moore, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poetry, Natalie Jabbar, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Shawna Lemay

Lifesaving Lines: The Bluet, by James Schuyler

On a spring day as far from ‘late in dour October’ it would be harder to imagine, James Schuyler’s The … More

Being a Poet, Carl Phillips, James Schuyler, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Seamus Heaney, Ukraine

Book news for 2023

I am delighted to announce that Blue Diode have accepted my new poetry manuscript and will publish my sixth collection, … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Blue Diode Press, Poems, Poetry, Poets, The Wind and the Rain, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Lifesaving Lines: The Death of Fred Clifton, by Lucille Clifton

So this is a bit spooky. All week I had in mind these marvellous final words from Lucille Clifton’s poem … More

Adam Zagajewski, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Frank O'Hara, French stationery, Josephine Corcoran, Life Lessons, Lucille Clifton, McFadden & Whitehead, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Queer Eye, Reading Poetry, Shawna Lemay, Stationery, Stina Nordenstam, Writing

Lifesaving Lines: Stone, I Presume, by Ian Mcmillan

For several weeks before Christmas I had these words from Ian McMillan’s peerless ‘Stone, I Presume’ rattling around my head. … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Frank O'Hara, Ian McMillan, Lifesaving Poems, Martin Stannard, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Writing Poems

Not exactly good riddance

Just a few hours left of 2021. Time to reflect on what this year has been. Until a week or … More

2021, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Life Lessons, Max Richter, Mental Health, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Simon Parke

Lifesaving Lines: What the Living Do, by Marie Howe

Two great lines for the price of one (it is Christmas, after all) this week, from Marie Howe’s extraordinary poem … More

Being a Poet, Cancer, Grief, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Lines, Marie Howe, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Remission, What the Living Do

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