Guest blog post: Poetry and Work, by Shawna Lemay

Poetry and Work I recently took out a book via Interlibrary loan called, The Mind at Work: Valuing the … More

Lifesaving Poems: Fleur Adcock’s ‘The Soho Hospital for Women (IV)’

The Soho Hospital for Woman (IV) I am out in the supermarket choosing – this very afternoon, this day … More

Goulash A crucial ingredient is the right frame of mind so abandon all ideas of getting on. Stop pedalling, dismount, … More

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More

How I put The Art of Falling together In May 2012 my first pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves … More

Thank you Lord, thank you. Thank you for all the gifts that you have given me today, Thank you for … More

I have been at a thing. Poets I love and trust were there. We laughed. We invented scurrilous Twitter-profiles. It … More

I am minding my own business, putting out some rubbish, when it happens. An elderly man I know, a neighbour, … More

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond. Robert … More

As I have said before, there wasn’t a plan. Which does not mean I don’t feel the luckiest man alive … More

This is the link to the podcast of the interview I gave yesterday on the Arena programme, RTE, about … More

A Misremembered Lyric, by Denise Riley I heard this poem for the first time a week ago, at the Bodmin … More

Damp white imprints dog the feet; snowbound trolley, snowbound street. Her tip of glove to lip and cheek, “Goodbye.” Go. … More

Artwork by Angus Joseph Alongside each poem in Lifesaving Poems is a short commentary about how I came across … More

Lifesaving Poems has arrived Well, it has finally arrived. The anthology which began life as a blog, which began life as … More

And Yet the Books And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings,That appeared once, still wetAs … More

‘Making Poetry Happen is a fundamental resource for all English teachers for the way if collates both thinking about … More

‘Passport?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Flight info?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Euros?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Underpants?’ The book glares at me. ‘What do you take me for?’ ‘It … More