Lifesaving Poems: Chrissy Williams’s ‘The Burning of the Houses’

The Burning Of The Houses Tottenham is on fire and I work in an arts centre where the sky is … More

New Year letter

Dear Ant Looking forward to 2015 it’s tempting to think it will never reach the heights of 2014. Big mistake. Huge. … More

I have so much to be grateful for in 2014. The year began in one of my temporary fits … More

Here are the most read Lifesaving Poems of 2014. For the first time I have been able to compare last … More

Dan O’Brien began by saying he wasn’t really a poet, but a ‘moonlighting playwright’. Selima Hill took out her glasses, … More

Here is my Christmas poem for 2014. In this anniversary year of the First World War, it commemorates the unofficial … More

I am sad because the great American poet Mark Strand has died. Among the tributes to him in the last … More

I am delighted to have The Four of Us, a new poem, in London Grip New Poetry, which you can find … More

I am at a thing. Not a famous thing, but an important one nevertheless. People are there, people you and … More

The poem and I are best friends. For ever. We hold hands in public and spend every spare minute with … More

Everyone who enters the stage begins by saying thank you * That silence * Mostly nearly all the time * … More

On the Sunday morning of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival I breakfasted with poets discussing the theme of writing poetry and … More

Early on Saturday morning of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival (Tom Pickard threatened not to get up in time) Robert Seatter … More

By the time you read this I will be far away from here. It has not happened yet, but I … More

On the basis of these five first collections, there is no reason to assume the careers of the poets who … More

The Burning Of The Houses Tottenham is on fire and I work in an arts centre where the sky is … More

Photo credit: Felix Clay, The Guardian Heard I can’t remember a time in my teaching career when there wasn’t … More

Ellen Doré Watson was a new name to me until recently. ‘Be Here First ‘ is a good example of … More