The dead streetlamp

I thought of it before I knew I had remembered it. Just the word ‘then’. Rereading and searching at speed … More

The Year of Living Deeply 5: The cool flash of what serious is

Remember when you got the news of the accident- or the illness- in the life of someone more laced into … More

Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotyzing yourself and going over the … More

As I said recently, I have been moving. Not away, not abroad. But here, within the space that already exists, … More

after and with apologies to Mark Halliday The missing blog post has gone AWOL. Never sure of its place in … More

The poem that came into my mind on waking up this morning and hearing the General Election result is Mark … More

Reading Thomas Lux’s magnificent new Selected Poems reminded me recently that I first heard his poems before I read them. One of … More

I am delighted to be included in Lyrical, a new anthology of poems with my friends Cole Moreton, Katherine Venn, … More

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost … More