Dark horses: 21 Lifesaving Poems which should be better known

Readers of this blog will know that I make a list at the end of each year showing the most … More

Finding Sharon Olds’s The Matter of This World

The Collection The Matter of This World: New and Selected Poems (Slow Dancer, 1987) I found The Matter of … More

Sometime in the early Nineties I did a very brave thing. I took myself to a poetry reading. I went … More

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