The poetry of Gianluca Vialli

The great Sampdoria, Juventus and Chelsea striker Gianluca Vialli has died, and I am sad. He was 58 and had … More

James Schuyler: Centenary year celebrations

Open call for guest blog posts celebrating the life and work of James Schuyler This November, we celebrate the centenary … More

I once heard a senior British poet warming to a riff during a reading on the topic of the acknowledgements … More

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

This time last year, I had begun a third period waiting for a response to a new manuscript of poems. … More

I’m delighted to announce that The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, will be published with Blue … More

Thank you to everyone who stopped by and liked or commented on yesterday’s blog post about the UCU strike action … More

Today was not a normal day of work for me. Instead of teaching my amazing students, I chose to participate … More

What’s been happening? Well, not much. Which is another, deflecting, way of saying quite a lot, actually. So much that … More

Heather Trickey was a social research scientist, charity worker, Quaker and poet. In 2020, during the first Covid lockdown, she … More

My personal poetry highlight of the summer was listening to Roger Robinson read and be in conversation with Pádraig Ó … More

The other day I bumped into Tomaž Šalamun. I was enjoying the last few hours of walking around Ljubljana, took … More

A huge shout out and massive thank you to Maria Taylor and her wonderful Commonplace blog, where yesterday I discovered … More

It was the dying of the light of my time on Twitter. Days when I miss it, I think of … More

I walked into the middle of a Ted Hughes poem the other week. An early morning dog walk, like any … More

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

I said here a couple of years ago that Natalie Jabbar’s blog of curated poems each April is like a … More

But first came Plath. After Ursuala Le Guin, the only female author we studied (OK – Jane Austen). Her name … More