As the holiday season continues I repost this list of various found poems that I have made over the … More
Tag: Being a Writer
Writing in the gaps
There isn’t much left to be done. The proof reading, the book blurbs (they take longer than the poems), the … More
Poems from The Afterlife
After what feels like a very long wait since the publication of Riddance in 2012, I am delighted to be publishing … More
Deck shoes and other enthusiasms
Some of you will have seen this blog post before. It is a taster of some of the contents … More
The possibility of shatter
I think I am done. I think. I think, therefore I am done? I think I am. No doubt there … More
The Wacky Races
When Riddance came out in 2012 people said some very nice and kind things about it. But that is not … More
Proof(s)
I have been doing the proofs to my new books. And I am scared. Scared that I have got it … More
On not tweeting: Open letter to Twitter
And what will I miss? Her cruelty, her unfaithfulnessHer fun, her love, her kiss, part company The Go-Betweens, Part Company … More
Nothing
‘What are you doing?’ says the book. ‘Nothing.’ ‘Doesn’t look like it.’ ‘Listening to the cricket,’ if you must know. … More
The Year of Living Deeply 20: Poems hatch – a found poem by Marge Piercy
Poems hatch Poems hatch frommemory, fantasy, theneed to communicatewith the living,the dead, the unborn.Poems come directly outof daily life, fromthe … More
The Year of Living Deeply 21: Some James Schuyler resources
My James Schuyler obsession continues. (So is my adoration of blogs about pencils, but that is another story.) Below are … More
The Year of Living Deeply 24: Go to poet?
I think I will write you a letter,June day. Dear June Fifth,you’re all green, somany kinds and all onegreen, tree … More
An interview with Raymond Carver by Kay Bonetti (1983)
‘You knew how to live in those days’ Peter Sansom Sometime in the early Nineties my friend … More
The Year of Living Deeply 14: Which artists do you admire most?
I have been reading Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It For Life recently. In it she asks … More
The Year of Living Deeply 16: I have carried it with me each day
I have carried it with me each day, that sense of shame about the fact that I write, that it … More
The Year of Living Deeply 15: You don’t have that kind of time
About a month before my friend Pammy died, she said something that may have permanently changed me. We had … More
Grandmaman
A few words about the piece below. I wrote the first draft of it in 1989, a year after the … More
The Year of Living Deeply 19: Open letter _ A week with Mark Hollis
Dear Mark I am sorry it has taken so long to getting round to writing to you, not least because … More
