As the summer holiday season takes hold, I am posting an old blog post or two from the archive. See … More
Tag: John Burnside
End of January notebook
Blind panic when the anthology I am in arrives. The hunt, ever more despairing, for my poem, certain that they … More
In Praise of Rupert
Rupert Loydell is shouting at the countryside. I have got up at sparrow-fart to drive him to the Blandford … More
Lifesaving poems of summer
Now that we might finally be getting one, I found myself wondering recently how many of my Lifesaving Poems choices were about … More
Lifesaving poems of summer
Now that we have finally had one in the UK, I found myself wondering recently how many of my Lifesaving Poems choices … More
Lifesaving Poems: John Burnside’s ‘A Private Life’
I found John Burnside‘s ‘A Private Life’ in a poetry magazine some years ago. I wasn’t much interested in … More
Lifesaving Poems
I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He was … More