Lifesaving Poems: Mandy Sutter’s ‘Caring for the Environment’

In 1991 I made the decision to spend more of my time concentrating on the thing that fulfilled me the … More

Lifesaving Poems: Sean O’Brien’s ‘Before’

To safe and almost universal silence I published How Far From Here is Home? (Stride) a few days before Christmas in … More

Young Poets’ Stories project update: Today we add a reading resources for young poets page to the Young Poets’ Stories website. … More

Struggling I haven’t had time to stand and fart recently,and you’re wanting me to work on a relationship? That silence … More

The Schoolchildren Like leaves startled by a gust of wind they peel away from the tight-knit group, one child, two, … More

Simply Lit Often toward evening, after another day, after another year of days, in the half dark on the … More

Dying Nothing to be said about it, and everything – The change of changes, closer or further away: The … More

Here are some places that I have been visiting recently and derived much comfort from. I hope you enjoy them … More

I am delighted to announce that Matthew Stewart of Rogue Strands has written a generous review of The Afterlife, the … More

Calling all Winning & Highly Commended Foyle Young Poets 2012 – 2019 If you are a young writer who … More

The washing never gets done. The furnace never gets heated. Books never get read. Life is never completed. Life … More

Save Us From Save us from night, from bleak open highways without end, and the fluorescent oases of gas stations, … More

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

Practice To weep unbidden, to wake at night in order to weep, to wait for the whisker on the face … More

Any Common Desolation can be enough to make you look upat the yellowed leaves of the apple tree, the fewthat … More

Another Loss to Stop For Against such cold and mercurial mornings, watch the wind whirl one leaf across … More

As Planned After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness … More

Empathy and New Year A notion like that of empathy inspires great distrust in us, because it connotes a further … More