The Top 20 Lifesaving Poems

I began writing the Lifesaving Poems series of blog posts in May 2010. The idea was to celebrate the poems that I … More

Lifesaving Poems: Elizabeth Jennings’s ‘A Letter to Peter Levi’

A Letter to Peter LeviReading your poems I am awareof translucencies, of birds hoveringover estuaries, of glass being spun for … More

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