It is odd to speak of missing someone you never met, but this is how I feel about the American … More
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From the archives: Why I miss Robert Rehder
It is odd to speak of missing someone you never met, but this is how I feel about the American … More
Open letter to Peter Sansom on reading Careful What You Wish For
Dear Peter Cover-to-cover and back-to-back twice, as I do, once before sleeping, then between zeds on a train woken to Tickets, … More
It is summer for months
It Is Summer for Months Clothes are skimpy and tans are got without flight bags. We saunter beside a … More
How to attend a poetry reading
Sometime in the early Nineties I did a very brave thing. I took myself to a poetry reading. I went … More
Lifesaving Poems: John Ash’s ‘The Middle Kingdom’
One of the pleasures of being alive is reading John Ash. Think of a prize-winning poet, someone you think of … More
Lifesaving Poems: Robert Pinsky’s ‘Song of Reasons’
It is nearly twenty years since I bought Peter Sansom’s Writing Poems. Among that wonderful book’s many delights I found … More
