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

RIP Jaan Kaplinski

I was very saddened to learn today that the leading Estonian poet Jaan Kaplinski has died, aged 80, of motor … More

Before I start, I want to say that this is not about stats. This is not about stats. What this … More

This is the last in my end of summer round-up of posts from my archive. I post it again today … More

The Soho Hospital for Woman (IV) I am out in the supermarket choosing – this very afternoon, this day … More

I am deeply grateful to Dave Russell of Survivors’ Poetry for his review of Lifesaving Poems in the current edition of Poetry … More

Lifesaving Poems has arrived Well, it has finally arrived. The anthology which began life as a blog, which began life as … More

I am at a thing. Canals are there. Sunlight on them, the last tourists, a shifting of the seasons. ‘Soon … More

On the Saturday afternoon of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, Festival Director Naomi Jaffa conducted an interew with Adélia Prado, and … More

She started as a name. There I was, following my nose, minding my own business, trying to ignore all instincts … More

Photograph © Bloodaxe Books Ltd I am delighted to announce that my Lifesaving Poems series of blog posts has now become … More

One of the poets I am most looking forward to listening to at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in November is … More

I am driving to a thing. Not a famous thing, an out of the way thing. A classroom, perhaps. … More

Seth Godin says in The Icarus Deception that however many good reviews you are lucky to get for your work, it … More

I first met Lawrence Sail at a private view at a gallery just outside Exeter. My family and I … More

Seven Ways of Reading Gillian Allnutt: How The Bicycle Shone: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe; 216pp; £12) 1 It’s … More

Sometimes you do not get a poem, or what a poet is up to, straight away. In the case of … More