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Tag: Being a Poet

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

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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

Lifesaving Lines

Thank you to everyone who has commented to me either publicly or in private about my new series of blog … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Cancer, Dementia, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Shawna Lemay, Stationery, The Afterlife, Writing Poems

Lifesaving Lines: Autumn, by Roo Borson

We have a lot of windows. I sit next to them at this time of the year thinking, Just five … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Grief, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Roo Borson

Lifsaving Lines: Alone, by Tomas Tranströmer

I have been thinking a lot this week about a line from Tomas Tranströmer’s masterpiece, ‘Alone’. (I have also blogged … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Life Lessons, Max Richter, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Tomas Transtromer, Tomas Transtromer Alone, William Blake, Wislawa Szymborska

Lifesaving Lines: The Day After, by Michael Laskey

The line that’s been buzzing round my head this week is the final phrase from Michael Laskey’s miracle poem of … More

Being a Poet, Laskey, Life Lessons, Poems, Poems about food, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Rose Cook, Smith Doorstop

Lifesaving Lines: Poem for Wednesday, by Naomi Jaffa

Recently, my relationship with Wednesdays has changed. It’s quite a long story, and one I don’t want to trouble you … More

Being a Poet, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Mental Health at Work, Naomi Jaffa, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry

Lifsaving Lines: For Sheridan, by Robert Lowell

The line that’s been buzzing round my head the last couple of weeks is from Robert Lowell’s heartbreaking poem ‘For … More

Being a Poet, Day by Day Robert Lowell, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney

Lifesaving Lines: Fosterage, by Seamus Heaney

I was very saddened to hear of the death of Brendan Kennelly this week. He had been a long-standing presence … More

Being a Poet, Brendan Kennelly, Exposure, Michael McLaverty, Reading Poetry, Seamus Heaney, Singing School, Social Media, Writing Poems

Lifesaving Lines: The Bight, by Elizabeth Bishop

‘Awful but cheerful’ is the final phrase and line of ‘The Bight‘, by Elizabeth Bishop. I’ve always felt that the … More

At the Fishhouses, Being a Poet, Elizabeth Bishop, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading, Reading Poetry, The Bight

Lifesaving Lines: The Gift, by Brendan Kennelly

I was at a thing. Very rarely for me, it was my own thing, only my second in front of … More

Being a Poet, Brendan Kennelly, Cancer, Life Lessons, Nils Frahm, Poems, Poetry, Poetry Readings, Poets, Reading Poetry, Remission and Cancer, Stationery, The Gift, Writing Poems

Lifesaving Lines: Why We Must Write, by Mark Halliday

I thought of it before I knew I had remembered it. Just the word ‘then’. Rereading and searching at speed … More

Being a Poet, Jab, Lifesaving Lines, Lifesaving Poems, Mark Halliday, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry

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