#NaBloPoMo 13 – His notebook highlights strewn

Dean Paul Granny § ‘What students in classrooms say is an exceptionally precious learning resource. Every time a teacher receives … More

Hugo Williams

In the summer of 1986, when he was poetry editor of New Statesman and not long after Writing Home had … More

Heaven on Earth Now that it is night, you fetch the wash from outer space, from the frozen … More

Never having succeeded at school, I’ve always thought of poetry as the holidays, not term time. Hugo Williams In November … More

I met the furniture designer Duncan Kramer at summer camp. Not as kids but as what we laughingly called leaders. … More

I’m talking about real influence now –Raymond Carver This is the first in a new series of blog posts about people … More

When Ezra Pound claimed that ‘Poetry is news that stays news’ it is likely he was thinking of Katy Evans-Bush’s Baroque … More

I’m grateful to you, you see. I wanted to tell you. –Raymond Carver (‘For Tess’) A kind, wise man once … More

I first encountered Siân Hughes‘s poems sitting around a table with some talented teenage poets at the Arvon Foundation‘s writing … More

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

I can remember exactly where I was when I first read these poems. It was on the balcony of the … More

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