When poetry stopped me breathing in 2012

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

Lifesaving Poems: Peter Carpenter’s ‘Nightwatchman’

Nightwatchmanan elegyMouth set. So far, noughtnot out, having dabbed atthe spinner who’d been giving itsome air. Hands soft – taking … 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