‘I hate this time of year’

Photo credit: Andrew Rumsey This, from a person I have met a handful of times, our dogs nosing each other … More

On not keeping up

Like the man Hemingway describes going bankrupt gradually and then suddenly, I realised the other day that I can no … More

Thank you to Chrissy Williams for contributing the stunning opening of her poetic response to James Schuyler’s ‘Hymn to Life’, … More

Thank you to Tamar Yoseloff for contributing this fourth post in celebration of James Schuyler’s centenary. In Paris last year, … More

Thank you to Pam Thompson for contributing this third post in celebration of James Schuyler’s centenary. James Marcus Schuyler was … More

Thank you to William Johnson for contributing his insightful reading of James Schuyler’s poem ‘The Crystal Lithium’, the second in … More

Thank you to Ailsa Holland for contributing this first blog post in honour of James Schuyler’s centenary. James Schuyler’s ‘The … More

Open call for guest blog posts celebrating the life and work of James Schuyler This November, we celebrate the centenary … More

Here are the blog posts from 2022 that you read most often Lifesaving Lines: The Death of Fred Clifton, by … More

On a spring day as far from ‘late in dour October’ it would be harder to imagine, James Schuyler’s The … More

First There is a holiness to exhaustion is what I keep telling myself, filling out the form so my TA … More

Simply Lit Often toward evening, after another day, after another year of days, in the half dark on the … More

Empathy and New Year A notion like that of empathy inspires great distrust in us, because it connotes a further … More

December Il va neiger dans quelques jours Francis Jammes The giant Norway spruce from Podunk, its lower branches bound, this … More

My James Schuyler obsession continues. (So is my adoration of blogs about pencils, but that is another story.) Below are … More

I think I will write you a letter, June day. Dear June Fifth, you’re all green, so many kinds and … More

As promised last week, here is my presentation of the paper I co-wrote with Sue Dymoke in which we argue on … More

It was one of those throwaway remarks made by one writer, male, to another, ditto, in one of those books … More