I am not sure why I started wearing deck shoes. I am no sailor -I have been on a sailing … More
Tag: Charles Simic
Lifesaving Poems: Charles Simic’s ‘My Shoes’
It was the best of times. Jean Sprackland and I were tutoring the dream group at Totleigh Barton for a … More
August Kleinzahler at the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize
August Kleinzahler, 2004 International Griffin Poetry Prize Winner, Opens the 2005 Awards Ceremony My reader is immune to fashion or … More
Lifesaving Poems
I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He was … More
Lifesaving Poems 