What you read in 2022

Here are the blog posts from 2022 that you read most often Lifesaving Lines: The Death of Fred Clifton, by … More

Lifesaving Lines: The Trees, by Philip Larkin

Early May. Sitting in the bay window upstairs at Cricklewood revising for finals. My pink vest and purple jeans phase. … More

Here are my most popular blog posts of 2019. As you will have seen, I am taking a brief sabbatical … More

Going There is an evening coming in Across the fields, one never seen before, That lights no lamps. Silken … More

I am returning to the pencil. The premise of which remark signifies consciousness that at some point I left the … More

Heaven on Earth Now that it is night, you fetch the wash from outer space, from the frozen … More

I was at a thing recently. Not my thing, a good thing. Luminosity filled the evening. In the pouring of … More

Some time ago I wrote about the importance to me of discovering, through my friend Duncan Kramer, the anthology The … More

As I have said before in the Lifesaving Poems series of blogposts, some poets come into your life through the … More