Not a ‘thin’ year for poetry

It was one of those throwaway remarks made by one writer, male, to another, ditto, in one of those books … More

Gratitude

I’m grateful to you, you see. I wanted to tell you. –Raymond Carver (‘For Tess’) A kind, wise man once … More

8.06 p.m. June 10th 1970poemTom Raworth (from Jumpstart, ed. Cliff Yates, Poetry Society, 1999) As I say in my previous blog post, … More

Slaughterhouse Let it be done here, here where deathis all in a day’s work, and by men who dealin the … More

I have just been asked by Abegail Morley to send her a list of my poetry books of 2012 for … More

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