Palestine Advent 3: Others Are Us, by Natalie Handal

The third poem in our Palestine Advent series is by Natalie Handal. Others Are Us, by Natalie Handal. Nathalie Handal … More

Palestine Advent – a new blog series starting tomorrow

Starting tomorrow, to mark the season of Advent, a new blog series celebrating the work of Palestinian poets. Each day … More

Timorous or bold are the first three words of Seamus Heaney’s famous (to me) ‘Elegy’ for Robert Lowell. They’ve been … More

I’ve been saying Tom Paulin’s line about ‘uniformed comedians’ a lot this summer. I don’t really want to go into … More

Somewhere right at the beginning of all this, before the internet, when everything was scarce, not least poetry, a word … More

Like the man Hemingway describes going bankrupt gradually and then suddenly, I realised the other day that I can no … More

I pinched myself to be there. God knows how I got invited. I can’t remember. Perhaps I invited myself. Poets … More

It felt like a good idea at the time. A way to pass lockdown, of trying to ignore the grief … More

It was going to be great. I wrote it more than seven years ago, in two bursts after work with … More

I’ve been thinking of Anne Lamott’s line in Bird by Bird recently, where she talks about the writing life not … More

Thank you to Chrissy Williams for contributing the stunning opening of her poetic response to James Schuyler’s ‘Hymn to Life’, … More

I don’t make new year’s resolutions. I used to, but not any more. It’s not that I don’t want to … More

Thank you to Tamar Yoseloff for contributing this fourth post in celebration of James Schuyler’s centenary. In Paris last year, … More

On publishing This year I published a book of poems. It is about grief, love and anger. It seems to … More

On waiting I grew up in a house where we were not encouraged to talk about our accomplishments. (I blame … More

Thank you to Pam Thompson for contributing this third post in celebration of James Schuyler’s centenary. James Marcus Schuyler was … More

Thank you to William Johnson for contributing his insightful reading of James Schuyler’s poem ‘The Crystal Lithium’, the second in … More

Thank you to Ailsa Holland for contributing this first blog post in honour of James Schuyler’s centenary. James Schuyler’s ‘The … More