Lifesaving Lines: Poem for Wednesday, by Naomi Jaffa

Recently, my relationship with Wednesdays has changed. It’s quite a long story, and one I don’t want to trouble you … More

The mighty dead

On #R4Today some of the BBC's best known voices will offer their favourite poems of #comfortandhope. Here @CliveMyrieBBC … More

Today is Saturday, and as with other Saturdays this Lent I am reposting a favourite blog post from my archive. … More

It was one of those throwaway remarks made by one writer, male, to another, ditto, in one of those books … More

Some of the Usual Standing in the kitchen before breakfast, not including some of the usual — what to buy in … More

Some writers influence you through the pull of their imagination on your work, opening up new worlds as you read … More

I have been sorting. I have been chucking. It’s been the recurring theme over the last eighteen months. I cleared … More

This blog would be nothing without its readers. Thank you to everyone who stopped by, made a comment or a … More

In terms of my poetry world, 2015 has turned out to be a year of endings and legacies. The Poetry … More

Don’t miss tomorrow’s guest blog post by Naomi Jaffa, in which she reminisces about two of her favourite poets from … More

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

Days Each one is a gift, no doubt, mysteriously placed in your waking hand or set upon your forehead moments … More

One of my personal, private highlights of last year’s Aldeburgh Poetry Festival was a Sunday morning breakfast hosted by The … More

My first reader was a man called Fergus. A friend of a flatmate at university, I never got to … More

I have so much to be grateful for in 2014. The year began in one of my temporary fits … More

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

Everyone who enters the stage begins by saying thank you * That silence * Mostly nearly all the time * … More

On the Saturday afternoon of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, Festival Director Naomi Jaffa conducted an interew with Adélia Prado, and … More