End of January notebook

Blind panic when the anthology I am in arrives. The hunt, ever more despairing, for my poem, certain that they … More

Dark horses: 21 Lifesaving Poems which should be better known

Readers of this blog will know that I make a list at the end of each year showing the most … More

I first came across ‘Sunday Lunchtime’ in a copy of Sunk Island Review, edited by Michael Blackburn. You can find … More

In the spring of 1999 I got the best education in poetry I have ever had. I was in Suffolk, … More

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