Chemo reading

I wrote here recently about losing my ambition as a writer. In case readers are in any doubt, the stuff … More

Lifesaving Poems: Tom Raworth’s ‘8.06 p.m. June 10th 1970’

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

I met Peter Carpenter in the summer of 2001 at the Arvon Foundation’s Totleigh Barton writing centre. I was at … More

Riddance is published today. It is my fourth full-length collection of poems and my third with Worple Press. You can … More

I Am a Finn I am standing in the post office, about to mail a package back to Minnesota, to … More

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