Lifesaving Poems interview podcast

This is the link to the podcast of the interview I gave yesterday on the Arena programme, RTE, about … More

Lifesaving Poems: Rosemary Tonks’s ‘The Sofas, Fogs, and Cinemas’

The Sofas, Fogs, and Cinemas I have lived it, and lived it, My nervous, luxury civilisation, My sugar-loving nerves have … More

Artwork by Angus Joseph Alongside each poem in Lifesaving Poems is a short commentary about how I came across … More

The central organising principle of Lifesaving Poems is that each poet is represented by a single poem. There are poets you … More

Cups They know us by our lips. They know the proverb about the space between us. Many slip. They … More

Hamlet The buzz subsides. I have come on stage. Leaning in an open door I try to detect from … More

Dan O’Brien began by saying he wasn’t really a poet, but a ‘moonlighting playwright’. Selima Hill took out her glasses, … More

By the time you read this I will be far away from here. It has not happened yet, but I … More

Well, it’s happening. Happened, I mean. Stuff I thought would last forever -film titles, the actors in them, scenes of … More

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work … More

Photograph © Bloodaxe Books Ltd I am delighted to announce that my Lifesaving Poems series of blog posts has now become … More