Lifesaving Poems: Tom Raworth’s ‘8.06 p.m. June 10th 1970’

8.06 p.m. June 10th 1970poemTom Raworth (from Jumpstart, ed. Cliff Yates, Poetry Society, 1999) As I say in my previous blog post, … More

Foal Failure

I first came across ‘Birth of the Foal’ at the recommendation of the great Cliff Yates. He told me he’d been … More

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