On going back in

I’ve been thinking of Anne Lamott’s line in Bird by Bird recently, where she talks about the writing life not … More

On publishing and Christmas

I don’t make new year’s resolutions. I used to, but not any more. It’s not that I don’t want to … More

On publishing This year I published a book of poems. It is about grief, love and anger. It seems to … More

On waiting I grew up in a house where we were not encouraged to talk about our accomplishments. (I blame … More

Thank you to Ailsa Holland for contributing this first blog post in honour of James Schuyler’s centenary. James Schuyler’s ‘The … More

I am delighted to announce the publication of The Wind and the Rain, with Blue Diode Publishing. Thank you to … More

Next month I will publish my sixth collection of poems, The Wind and the Rain, with Blue Diode Publishing. I … More

Open call for guest blog posts celebrating the life and work of James Schuyler This November, we celebrate the centenary … More

I once heard a senior British poet warming to a riff during a reading on the topic of the acknowledgements … More

This time last year, I had begun a third period waiting for a response to a new manuscript of poems. … More

One of the things I have learned about myself in the last year or so is that I can sometimes … More

I like to think of myself as a pretty consistent person. I look askance with a certain smugness at the … More

Thank you to everyone who stopped by and liked or commented on yesterday’s blog post about the UCU strike action … More

What’s been happening? Well, not much. Which is another, deflecting, way of saying quite a lot, actually. So much that … More

Heather Trickey was a social research scientist, charity worker, Quaker and poet. In 2020, during the first Covid lockdown, she … More

Early May. Sitting in the bay window upstairs at Cricklewood revising for finals. My pink vest and purple jeans phase. … More

I said here a couple of years ago that Natalie Jabbar’s blog of curated poems each April is like a … More

Our tiny minds blown by ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’, ‘Spelt From Sibyl’s Leaves’ and ‘As Kingfisher’s Catch Fire’, we … More