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

Above the desk where I am writing this is a shelf on which sits more than a yard of poetry … More

Photo: Derek Adams Some writers influence you through the pull of their imagination on your work, opening up new worlds … More

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

I’ll begin by promising that there’ll be times in your life as a poet when the problems that are a … More