When poetry moved underground, by Czeslaw Milosz

When poets discover that their words refer only to other words and not to reality which must be described as … More

Guest blog post: A Mentor: Anthony Glavin, by Mark Granier

Recently, I took our 11-year old boy to see the Turners in the National Gallery of Ireland. These 31 watercolours … More

‘So is that your main idea?’ ‘That’s it, yes.’ ‘That people get stuff done out of a social need to … More

And Yet the Books And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings,That appeared once, still wetAs … More

Gift A day so happy.Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden.Hummingbirds were stopping over the honeysuckle flowers.There was no … More

Psalm How leaky are the borders of man-made states! How many clouds float over them scot-free, how much … More

One year I decided that I would decorate one of my teaching rooms with my collection of Poems on the … More