Open letter to Ted Hughes (LentBlog27)

Dear Ted Hughes You probably won’t remember me. I wrote to you before, in the summer of 1998. I did … More

A few days to read

and James, it’s taken me a few days to read A Few Days, but I have loved every line, especially … More

I have been asked to judge a thing. A good thing. A serious thing. (But this isn’t about that. We … More

I have been thinking a lot recently about the gap between what is expected of us and what we think … More

I love watching poets having fun. Think of Don Paterson shooting the breeze with Bill Herbert in the South Bank … More

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