Except the Americans

As I said recently, I have been moving. Not away, not abroad. But here, within the space that already exists, … More

Lifesaving Poems: Jane Kenyon’s ‘Let Evening Come’

A couple of weeks after I finished my radiotherapy treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in October 2006 I bought Jane Kenyon’s … More

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