Lifesaving Lines: The Death of Fred Clifton, by Lucille Clifton

So this is a bit spooky. All week I had in mind these marvellous final words from Lucille Clifton’s poem … More

Tired, but

I am tired. Though I write from a place of privilege and of safety, I am tired. Tired of feeling … More

Here are some places that I have been visiting recently and derived much comfort from. I hope you enjoy them … More

Thank you to the heroic bloggers and poets Josephine Corcoran and Robin Houghton for their recentish posts about their desks. … More

After what feels like a very long wait since the publication of Riddance in 2012, I am delighted to be publishing … More

After what feels like a very long wait since the publication of Riddance in 2012, I am delighted to be publishing … More

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

As we draw to the end of NaBloPoMo, I have invited Josephine Corcoran to collaborate with me on a joint-interview. … More

You say “drone” and I think of bagpipes refrigerators aeroplanes I think of bees a male bee in a colony … More

‘To tell you the truth, it’s been shattering. But kind of amazing, as well.’ ‘You never said. You never said. … More

One of the great joys of writing this blog in the last year has been to invite some of my … More

Since I decided to leave Twitter and abscond from Facebook I have been reminded of some of the guiding principles … More

As I did last year, I will be taking a break from uploading new posts to this blog over August. … More

This is the second in a series of Guest Blog Posts that I am hosting this year. More are … More

Two new poems are published today at And Other Poems, curated by Josephine Corcoran. They are Poem Beginning With a … More

I found two blog posts especially moving in the aftermath of last week’s attacks in Paris, both by the same … More

I have so much to be grateful for in 2014. The year began in one of my temporary fits … More

I was asked the other day which poetry blogs I read. Over the next few posts I will be sharing … More