Lifesaving Poems: Sean O’Brien’s ‘Before’

To safe and almost universal silence I published How Far From Here is Home? (Stride) a few days before Christmas in … More

Lifesaving Poems: Gwen Harwood’s ‘Cups’

Cups They know us by our lips. They know the proverb about the space between us. Many slip. They … More

To safe and almost universal silence I published How Far From Here is Home? (Stride) a few days before Christmas in … More

And sometimes you don’t know where it comes from. It appears as a heat, prickly, under your skin, your scalp. … More

Some of my favourite poetry books of all time are anthologies. Not the headline selections everybody has (and has to … More

I Am a Finn I am standing in the post office, about to mail a package back to Minnesota, to … More