Climbing up the walls

Or perhaps you’re waiting at the bus stop. You could text someone. But if you said ‘no’ to the text, … More

What I have learned about remission

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More

What I want is to – to be present. That’s what I’ve learned. I want to strive for presence, now, … More

As I did last year, I will be taking a break from uploading new posts to this blog over August. … More

I am deeply grateful to Dave Russell of Survivors’ Poetry for his review of Lifesaving Poems in the current edition of Poetry … More

How I put The Art of Falling together In May 2012 my first pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves … More

Thank you Lord, thank you. Thank you for all the gifts that you have given me today, Thank you for … More

I have been at a thing. Poets I love and trust were there. We laughed. We invented scurrilous Twitter-profiles. It … More

I am minding my own business, putting out some rubbish, when it happens. An elderly man I know, a neighbour, … More

This is the second in a series of Guest Blog Posts that I am hosting this year. More are … More

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward … More

I have been moving. Not moving house, moving within it. Stuff has come with me, some of it has vanished … More

The Sofas, Fogs, and Cinemas I have lived it, and lived it, My nervous, luxury civilisation, My sugar-loving nerves have … More

Lifesaving Poems has arrived Well, it has finally arrived. The anthology which began life as a blog, which began life as … More

I Am Not I I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not … More

And Yet the Books And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings,That appeared once, still wetAs … More

I am delighted to have a new poem, To Spring, published today at Sarah James’s blog, in With You In … More

‘You’re late,’ the new book says. It is seated at my desk, sleeves rolled up, a mug of steaming coffee … More