Teachers’ words should not be ‘How to write’ but ‘How to try to say what you really mean’ – which … More
Tag: Poetry in the Making
The Invisible College
I have just come back from a thing. I am tired. A good afternoon of good conversation about large, important … More
An Upstairs Kitchen
Yesterday I wrote here about poets disappearing. Partly this came to mind via news of Salt’s decision to discontinue publishing … More
Lifesaving Poems: e e cummings’s ‘in Just’
I I first came across e e cummings’s ‘in Just’ in an anthology, Wordscapes, edited by Barry Maybury (OUP, 1971). … More
Lifesaving Poems: Theodore Roethke’s ‘Elegy for Jane’
I came across ‘Elegy for Jane’ having found poems by Theodore Roethke in Ted Hughes’ classic anthology of poems and … More