Kin “You make me sick!” this, with rancor, vehemence, disgust—again, “You hear me? Sick!” with rancor, vehemence, disgust again, with … More
Tag: CK Williams
Guest blog post: Endings and Legacies, by Naomi Jaffa
In terms of my poetry world, 2015 has turned out to be a year of endings and legacies. The Poetry … More
Lifesaving Poems: CK Williams’s ‘Kin’
In the spring of 1999 I got the best education in poetry I have ever had. I was in Suffolk, … More
Lifesaving Poems: Stephen Berg’s ‘Eating Outside’
Above the desk where I am writing this is a shelf on which sits more than a yard of poetry … More
My Hero: Michael Laskey
Photo: Derek Adams Some writers influence you through the pull of their imagination on your work, opening up new worlds … More
Lifesaving Poems
I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He … More
Letter to a young poet -by CK Williams in The Young Poets Network
I’ll begin by promising that there’ll be times in your life as a poet when the problems that are a … More
