The fear of poetry -by Muriel Rukeyser

The Fear of Poetry In this moment when we facehorizons and conflicts widerthan ever before, we want our resources,the ways … More

Lifesaving Poems: Margaret Avison’s ‘Twilight’

Twilight Three minutes ago it was almost dark.Now all the darkness is in theleaves (there are no morelow garage roofs, … More

I want to congratulate you on passing this course and achieving QTS in this uniquely difficult and strange year. None … More

One of the privileges of writing this blog is inviting others to write guest blog posts. I have collected these … More

Waiting for the Barbarians What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. … More

As I was saying the book that I bought and then did not read and which caught my eye recently is Now … More

Poem Without Sleep All the things that could happen to the baby came to me last night as I … More

Dear Friends Here are the blog posts which you read most often in 2017, according to my WordPress stats: … More

Smith Objectionable, mercurial, fierce, wise, bandaged, solitary and irresistible, Phil Smith and I were not close. Only in our … More

I feel a great sense of weariness as I look at the current political scene. Domestically, in the UK, we … More

I have begun to acclimatise myself to the fact that the Book is not coming back. To lure it back … More

The Half-Finished Heaven Despondency breaks off its course.Anguish breaks off its course.The vulture breaks off its flight. The eager light … More

Tracks 2 am: moonlight. The train has stopped out in the middle of the plain. Far away, points of … More

And though I only met you once, your influence on me is massive, or should that be was I don’t … More

Alone I One evening in February I came near to dying here.The car skidded sideways on the ice, outon the … More

‘You look upset.’ ‘I am upset,’ I say. ‘Well, not so much upset as disappointed.’ ‘Want to talk about it?’ … More

Continuing in this mini-series of poems I shared in my reading at the Greenbelt festival last weekend, here is The … More

Continuing in this mini-series of poems I shared in my reading at the Greenbelt festival last weekend, here is Looking … More