‘Clear of the wheel of myself’: Workshopping Michael Laskey’s ‘Bike’

Bike You, who have borne three sons of mine, still bear my weight routinely, transporting me. An odd … More

A new Archive page

Today I have published a new Archive page on this blog. It contains links to all of the blog posts … More

As the summer holiday season takes hold, I am posting an old blog post or two from the archive. See … More

To celebrate what I now think of as James Schuyler day, I am reposting June 30, 1974. Happy … More

and (Dear James) it occurs to me now, just thinking out loud, that in a way Kenneth and Frank … More

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the ‘poets I go back to’ idea, that I first came across in … More

Dear James (may I call you James?) Though it’s been a while (at least ten years, maybe more) it feels as … More

For the final Saturday in Lent, and the final post of this LentBlog series, I have great pleasure in reposting … More

This being a Saturday in Lent, I am reblogging a favourite post from my archives. Here is one of … More