Lifesaving Poems

I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He was … More

Letter to a young poet -by CK Williams in The Young Poets Network

I’ll begin by promising that there’ll be times in your life as a poet when the problems that are a … More

The People of the Other Village hate the people of this village and would nail our hats to our … More

Love Listen Let’s love, listen, take time when time is all we have. Let’s be unafraid to be kind, learn … More

To My Cancer When you left me I did not say goodbye. I kissed you then carried you outside. You … More

Andrew Motion is my hero because he set up the Poetry Archive with Richard Carrington. He has nothing left to prove. As … More

I hate end-of-year roundups. But I was so impressed by five books of poetry this year that I felt I … More

Over the last few days I have been thinking about the so-called New York school of poets, in posts about … More

Re-reading Steven Waling’s review of Frank O’Hara in The North the other day reminded me of James Schuyler today. Not as famous … More