The sweetness of 2020

I don’t want to pretend for a second that it was great. It was full of rawness and grief and … More

Poem of the year?

Before I start, I want to say that this is not about stats. This is not about stats. What this … More

I have walked into the grief. I have walked into brave space, mine and others’. I have sat in … More

The grief keeps on coming. Though I write from my place of privilege, of safety, it still feels relentless. … More

I can’t be alone in experiencing the coronavirus crisis and resulting lockdown as something of an infringement on my … More

Young Poets’ Stories project update: Today we add a reading resources for young poets page to the Young Poets’ Stories website. … More

Struggling I haven’t had time to stand and fart recently, and you’re wanting me to work on a relationship? That … More

The Schoolchildren Like leaves startled by a gust of wind they peel away from the tight-knit group, one child, two, … More

Simply Lit Often toward evening, after another day, after another year of days, in the half dark on the … More

Dying Nothing to be said about it, and everything – The change of changes, closer or further away: The … More

Here are some places that I have been visiting recently and derived much comfort from. I hope you enjoy them … More

The washing never gets done. The furnace never gets heated. Books never get read. Life is never completed. Life … More

Save Us From Save us from night, from bleak open highways without end, and the fluorescent oases of gas stations, … More

On #R4Today some of the BBC's best known voices will offer their favourite poems of #comfortandhope. Here @CliveMyrieBBC … More

My concentration has not been all that it might have been recently. Loved ones are suffering. Some with this thing, … More

I started a bit of a thing for Max Richter a while ago. Then gave up. Last autumn I came … More

Practice To weep unbidden, to wake at night in order to weep, to wait for the whisker on the face … More

Any Common Desolation can be enough to make you look upat the yellowed leaves of the apple tree, the fewthat … More