The voice you hear when you write

Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotyzing yourself and going over the … More

Guest blog post: Whose life is it anyway? by John Foggin

A few weeks ago I was writing in my own blog, the great fogginzo’s cobweb, about the way I … More

The central organising principle of Lifesaving Poems is that each poet is represented by a single poem. There are poets you … More

Heaven on Earth Now that it is night, you fetch the wash from outer space, from the frozen … More

Days Each one is a gift, no doubt, mysteriously placed in your waking hand or set upon your forehead moments … More

I began writing the Lifesaving Poems posts in May, 2011. Below is a list of the twenty most popular poems … More

I am in the pub with Rupert. We are talking about planning a thing. It’s definitely going to happen. A … More

I love watching poets having fun. Think of Don Paterson shooting the breeze with Bill Herbert in the South Bank … More

Sometime In the early Nineties BBC 2 did a very wonderful thing; it showed a film, an hour and a … More

Some of my favourite poetry books of all time are anthologies. Not the headline selections everybody has (and has to … More

Like a lot of people I first came across Carol Ann Duffy‘s ‘Words, Wide Night’ as a Poems on the … More

I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He was … More