Their Age Now

I went home the other day. I mean home-home, where I was born, and where my parents still live. … More

The power of poetry

A speech given at the NATE annual conference, June 2014 My early poetic experiences were not ‘poetic’ at … More

I began writing the Lifesaving Poems posts in May, 2011. Below is a list of the twenty most popular poems … More

These are the most read Lifesaving Poems posts of 2013. Mary Oliver, ‘The Journey’ I first read this on … More

I have written before that there are a wide range of reasons for including the poems I have in my … More

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

I have just been asked by Abegail Morley to send her a list of my poetry books of 2012 for … More

The Picnic It is the picnic with Ruth in the spring. Ruth was third on my list of seven girls … More

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