Lifesaving Poems: Piotr Sommer’s ‘Morning on Earth’

Morning on Earth Morning on earth, light snow, and just when it was so warm, practically spring. But the thermometer … More

Riddance one year on

A year ago I published Riddance, a book of poems, with Worple Press. It concerns my diagnosis and experience of cancer … More

Ann Sansom is one of my all-time favourite people, poets or normal, ever. I count myself fortunate to have worked … More

Readers who have followed my Lifesaving Poems series will know by now that there isn’t and wasn’t a plan about … More

Seven Ways of Reading Gillian Allnutt: How The Bicycle Shone: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe; 216pp; £12) 1 It’s … More

As I say in my previous blog post, I owe my knowledge of ‘8.06 p.m. June 10th 1970’ to the … More

I have written before that there are a wide range of reasons for including the poems I have in my … More

I have just been asked by Abegail Morley to send her a list of my poetry books of 2012 for … More

In the spring of 1999 I got the best education in poetry I have ever had. I was in Suffolk, … More

Yesterday was a good day and a sad say. A good day because Smiths Knoll, the poetry magazine edited by … More

Now that we in Britain have started to think of ourselves as the greatest cycling nation since dinosaurs roamed the … More

Photo: Derek Adams Some writers influence you through the pull of their imagination on your work, opening up new worlds … More

I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He was … More